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Cultural influences on cognition: A reanalysis of Vernon's data 1
Author(s) -
Vandenberg Steven G.,
Hakstian A. Ralph
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597808246631
Subject(s) - psychology , acculturation , perception , sample (material) , cognition , developmental psychology , anthropology , ethnic group , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , sociology
Correlations between 50 test scores obtained by Philip Vernon (1969) for four samples of boys (Scots from the Hebrides, Ugandans, Eskimos, and Canadian Indians) were reanalyzed. Seven factors were obtained in each sample and rotated towards the same “target” factor matrix solution: an orthogonal rotation of the seven factors for the combined sample. Four of these factors were interpreted as Verbal‐Acculturation, Ideational Fluency, Piagetian Conservation, and Spatial‐Perceptual‐Motor. Congruence coefficients between the four resulting “congruent” factor matrices were moderately high. Correlations between the four congruent factors in each sample and eight cultural indices were calculated. These showed interesting differences.