Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turk Psikoloji Dergisi, cilt.11, sa.36, ss.61-69, 1996 (Scopus)
Tills study investigated the recognition and drawing of the 4 basic facial expressions in 4-6 year-old preschool children (n=60). Children were shown line drawings of facial expressions of happy, sad, surprised and angry. Children were tested under two different recognition (matching discrimination and forced choice labeling) and drawing (free and partial) tasks. Matching discrimination task required the child, to match a target facial expression with one of a set of facial expressions. In forced-choice labeling task, the child was shown a target face and was required to choose one of a set of emotion labels prowled by the experimenter. The first drawing task was named a free drawing task. Children were asked to draw facial expressions of emotion on a blank face. The partial drawing task, the second drawing task, was of two parts. The partial faces varied from one part to another in terms of the features (eyes or mouth) to be drawn. Children drew either the mouth or the eyes in order to reflect emotion in their partial face drawings. Tlte results revealed that both age groups were best at matching discrimination task. 6-year-old children made fewer errors than 4-year-olds in the forced choice labeling task and happy faces were recognized most accurately. 6-year-old children were more successful in theirfre- drawings than their partial face drawings and more likely use the mouth to draw the emotion. Also preschool children did not widely utilize Standort graphic "symbols" of emotions in their drawings, instead they tried to reflect the emotions with other indicators such as tears (sad), teeth (angry) and wide eyes with eyelashes (surprised). Happy and sad were drawn more successfully than other emotions in the free drawing task. Knowledge of graphic symbols of emotions and ha\ing drawing difficulty are suggested to be operating in preschool children 's drawings of facial expressions.