REPRODUCTION OF ORIENTATION OF KOHS‐TYPE FIGURES: A CROSS‐CULTURAL STUDY

• Published in: British Journal of Psychology
• Main Author: DERĘGOWSKI, JAN B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1972
• Subjects: General Psychology; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1972.tb02112.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.2044-8295.1972.tb02112.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1972.tb02112.x/fullpdf

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.