Vaizdinio mąstymo ontogenezė: abstraktumo įvertinimas
The Ontogenesis of Visual Thinking: Evaluation of Abstractness

Summary/Abstract: Visual thinking is a kind of thinking responsible for operating internal and external images; it is visual perception and also includes imagination. Visual thinking is very important in our life because visual information is growing all the time. We live in a visual culture, every day we have to read visual codes, evaluate, and interpret them. Every person needs skills to read and communicate a visual culture. Visual thinking is very important in all areas of education because it can foster better understanding of visual information; especially it is essential in science and art education. In this paper visual thinking is discussed aiming to answer problem questions. It is interesting, whether a child or an adult perceve visual images in the same way, whether there are any differences between childrens’ and adults’ visual thinking. Aim. to evaluate abstractness of visual thinking ontogenesis. Methodology. There were 903 respondents in this research (300 children, 295 teenagers, 307 students). They were asked to draw 6 pictures using colored pencils. 5418 pictures were drawn. To code abstractness Osdgood semantic differential scale and D. Beresnevičienė’s coding methodology were used. Conclusions. Children think in concrete visual images; the visual images of the concepts “passiveness“ and „order“ are concrete in children and teenagers consciouness, it also shows that visual thinking in their social environment becomes almost or absolutely abstract (p = 0,000) in later adolescence and in young adult age. It is possible that visual thinking becomes more abstract with age, independently from verbal concept (p = 0,000).

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