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REPRODUCTION OF ORIENTATION OF KOHS‐TYPE FIGURES: A CROSS‐CULTURAL STUDY
Author(s) -
DERĘGOWSKI JAN B.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1972.tb02112.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , icelandic , orientation (vector space) , symmetry (geometry) , stability (learning theory) , reproduction , developmental psychology , social psychology , sample (material) , geometry , mathematics , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , management , chromatography , machine learning , computer science , economics , biology
Adults and children from Zambia as well as children from Iceland were used to evaluate hypotheses that rotation of reproduced patterns in a Kohs‐like task is not random but is such as to increase the ‘stability’ of the model and its symmetry about the median plane, and that the symmetry is of secondary importance to stability. The data obtained confirmed the difficulties which some African populations encounter when dealing with this type of task and verified the hypotheses stated above. The Icelandic sample made so few erroneous responses that their data could not be used in evaluating the hypotheses.