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IMPLICIT‐SHAPE CONSTANCY AS A FACTOR IN PICTORIAL PERCEPTION
Author(s) -
DEREGOWSKI J. B.
Publication year - 1976
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.2044-8295.1976.tb01494.x
Subject(s) - subjective constancy , psychology , perception , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , factor (programming language) , depth perception , social psychology , communication , computer science , neuroscience , management , economics , programming language
Schoolboys from the Ivory Coast and from Kenya were tested on a simple task intended to detect the effect of implicit‐shape constancy. The presence of such an effect was confirmed. Comparison of two Ivorean subsamples differing in their responses to a request to build a model of a depicted structure showed that those subjects who built flat (2D) models were less influenced by the implicit‐shape constancy than those subjects who built three‐dimensional structures. This confirms a postulated link between the implicit constancy and perception of pictorial depth.