Investigates the ability of Malawians ranging from 7 through 23 years of age to make judgements of the relative sizes and spatial locations of objects in photographic scenes with restricted cues to depth. All age groups responded with an accuracy significantly above chance. Exhibiting maximum scores, adults were significantly more accurate than…

This study concerns children's understanding of spatial relationships and their expression in drawings and photographs. Sixty children (ages 5, 8, and 11) were asked to discriminate and reproduce three types of depth relationships in either drawings or photographs: enclosure, where a larger object is placed directly behind a smaller object;…

In this study of sensitivity to viewpoint, children between the ages of 6 and 14 years were asked to draw an L-shaped array of 3 cubes from 1 of 3 views. At every age, children showed sensitivity to their view in the sense that there were consistent differences between the drawings produced in the three viewing conditions. (SH)