behavioral theory:
It is based on the empirical study and analysis of external environmental conditions
as 'stimuli' - observed behavior 'responses' and the discovery of laws governing the
acquisition and modification of behavior.
The role of learning, environmental factors, and experience is more prominent than
any other factors
The examination focuses on fees as a final product, collecting evidence on the
strategic plans leading to these results, studying the performance situation and
conditions, and analyzing responses. Taking drawings as a learnable behavior entails
defining what the child must acquire and regulating the environmental conditions
necessary for the learner.
This means that testing the final product of a drawing entails dissecting this product
into several parts according to the development of planning processes, and this leads
to the loss of the true meaning of the expression.
What the child lacks is not the skills as he decides it, but rather the motivation to
draw and paint freely and spontaneously. Integrative interpretation of children's
drawings It turns out that the explanatory approaches that were previously presented
represent different cognitive, analytical, cognitive and behavioral theories, each of
which has its own direction in terms of foundations, assumptions, methods and
methods of discrimination.
We do not differentiate between them, nor do we emphasize their mere difference
and contradiction with each other, because each of them alone is not sufficient in
studying the phenomenon of artistic expression due to its complexity and richness.
When a child draws something, he is governed by many factors
Visual reality - his knowledge of it - his conception of it - his feelings - learning
conditions and reinforcement systems - his mental readiness - his perceptualcognitive style in dealing with visual information - his level of maturity and motor
skill - his previous experiences - his perceptual training - the concepts and methods
he learned - his mood - the richness of his environment In addition to cultural and
social factors.
and mental theory
Great value is given to the most details in the child's drawing in terms of their
indication of mental maturity, although the large number of details from another point
of view is only a negative indicator of the quality of artistic expression.
The researchers also question the cognitive development, as "Eleanor Gibson" points
out that the cognitive development of the child includes a gradual increase in each of
his ability to distinguish.
(Finding the difference between the largest number of variations such as "red, redorange, red-violet" while in an earlier stage it was all red)
And his ability to elicit information (meaning extract salient details, knows what to
look at and knows how to look at it)
As for the effectiveness of attention (meaning the improvement of its ability to select
a certain shape among similar shapes, such as the face of a person in a crowd.)
This means that low-detail drawings may be more information-centric than poorly
detailed
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