A Study Of Certain Perceptual And Imaginative Responses Of A Group Of Art Students Compared To The Responses Of An Equated Group Of Non-art Students

r F O R D H A M UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL May.15....................19-51. This dissertation prepared under my direction by Frances entitled Boug lass - Study o f C e rta in P e rc e p tu a l and Im a g in a tiv e Responses o f a Group o f A rt Students Compared to th e Responses o f ............... .an...Equate.d..GrQup...M...NQn-art...Students,................................. has been accepted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of le c to r o f P hilosophy (Faculty A d vise r) A STUDY OF CERTAIN PERCEPTUAL AND IMAGINATIVE RESPONSES OF A GROUP OF ART STUDENTS COMPARED TO THE RESPONSES OF AN EQUATED GROUP OF NON-ART STUDENTS Frances M. Douglass DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY AT FOHDHAM UNIVERSITY NEW YORK 1951 ProQuest N um ber: 10992726 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is d e p e n d e n t upon the quality of the copy subm itted. In the unlikely e v e n t that the a u thor did not send a c o m p le te m anuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if m aterial had to be rem oved, a n o te will ind ica te the deletion. uest ProQuest 10992726 Published by ProQuest LLC(2018). C opyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C o d e M icroform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 4 8 1 0 6 - 1346 TABLE OF CONTENTS page LIST OF TABLES...... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iv .............................. v INTRODUCTION ANDREVIEW OF THE LITERATURE...... 1 PROCEDURE...................... 22 RESULTS........................................ 62 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS,........................ 86 BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................... 91 APPENDICES.............................. 97 I. II. III. IV. iv r "i LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Colleges from Which the Subjects Were Drawn 2. Mean Ages of Subjects. 40 ........................ 42 3. Mean Percentile Scores on Intelligence Tests.... 45 4. Level of Father* s Occupation ........ 47 5* Father’s Birthplace............................. 50 6. Number of Years of Previous Schooling of Art and Non-art Subjects.................... 52 7. Major Field of Non-art Subjects................ 54 8. Mean Number of Years of Schooling of Parents of Subjects........................................ 54 9. ‘’Creative” Extra-curricular Activities of Art and Non-art Subjects............................ 56 10. Period in which Art Interest Developed 57 11. Reason for Choice of Art by Art Subjects....... 58 12. Major Art Interest................ 59 13. 63 for Partially Speeded Tests.............. 14. Test Reliability................................ 64 15* Means and Standard Deviations of Male and Female Art and Non-art Subjects on Each Test.... 68 l 16. Results of L^ Test.................... 71 17. Analysis of Variance of Test Results........... 72 18. Comparison of Responses on Test 5 - Object Classification......... ^........... 80 ^ V p “I ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author wishes to express her profound apprecia­ tion to Dr. A