Etch-a-sketch

The Etch-A-Sketch task is a cooperative learning challenge task that requires a parent to work together with their child in order to succeed. The parent and child are given one Etch-A-Sketch board and are instructed to use the board to copy a series of three designs that increase in complexity. The parent and child must work together as one controls the left knob (draws only horizontal lines) and one controls the right knob (draws only vertical lines). The parent and child are allowed a maximum of 5 minutes to complete each design, and participants are told that their accuracy on completing or copying the designs will be checked by the experimenter.

Mother-child dyads performed two 3-minute tasks (building a tower & an etch-a-sketch task) which were too difficult for the child at 36 months.

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  • Generation R

  • 3 years
    •   OP1C
    34 months - 4.7 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2009-12-31
  • 4 years
    •   OFC
    46 months - 6.2 years   From 2006-01-01 to 2010-12-31
  • 9-10 years
    •   OP1C
    8.7 - 12.5 years   From 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
    Mode of collection Observation
    Analysis unit Individual, Family
    Instrument name Etch-a-sketch and Tower Building
    Measure name Parental sensitivity
    References
    Egeland, B., Erickson, M. F., Clemenhagen-Moon, J. C., Hiester, M. K., & Korfmacher, J. (1990). 24 months tools coding manual. Project STEEP revised 1990 from mother– child project scales. Unpublished manuscript, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. // Ainsworth, M.D.S., Bell, S.M., & Stayton, D.J. (1974). Infant-mother attachment and social development. In M.P. Richards (Ed.), The introduction of the child into a social world (pp. 99–135). London: Cambridge University Press.
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