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Extension to Indian Subjects of a Study of Exploratory and Verbal Responses to Visual Patterns
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Berlyne, D. E. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1975
Implication of this study is that recurrent findings regarding exploratory behavior and other measures of interest to experimental aesthetics have some cross-cultural validity. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Information Processing, Pictorial Stimuli
Pictorial Depth Perception by Children in Scotland and Ghana
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McGurk, Harry; Jahoda, Gustav – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1975
Tries to unravel some of the problems concerning the previous finding that increasing the number of depth cues in pictures has a depressing effect on spatial accuracy of three dimensional reconstruction of pictures. Evidence does not support a deficiency in perceiving pictorial depth in African children. (AM)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Depth Perception
Depth Picture Perception in Relation to Cognitive Style and Training in Non-Western Children.
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Mshelia, Ayuba Yabilar; Lapidus, Leah Blumberg – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1990
Tests of 172 fourth grade students in Zaria, Nigeria, supported the hypotheses that non-Western subjects' difficulties in judging depth in linear pictures are a function of individual perceptual organization, and that training could improve field independence and depth perception. Discusses child-rearing practices that may increase field…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Style, Depth Perception, Elementary School Students