Abstract
63 college seniors and 69 sixth grade children participated in an experiment. Experimental Ss had 5 30-min. lessons designed to increase figure preference for complexity-asymmetry and the amount of differentiation of form on a Draw-A-Person test. Learning occurred only at the sixth grade level for boys. Findings are discussed in terms of perceptual training in art.
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