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DEREGOWSKI, JB 1972; - PICTORIAL PERCEPTION AND CULTURE - Coggle Diagram
DEREGOWSKI, JB 1972; - PICTORIAL PERCEPTION AND CULTURE
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Results
"what is the man doing with the spear?"
"What is nearer, the antelope or the elephant?"
Africans - 2D perceivers
Shown drawing of 2 squares connected with rod - asked to build a model of what they saw
- 3D perceivers built 3D model - Africans build flat model.
Two-pronged trident - ambiguous image
- 2D perceivers drew copy quickly
- 3D perceivers spent more time examining image before drawing.
Split-type drawing to represent animals - 2D perceivers preferred this to perspective - only shown one side of animal.
Significance to research
- replication of Hudson's experiment
- An example of cross-culture (quasi) research - helps researchers account for innate or learned skills
- Biased and ethnocentric - did not account for ways in which Africans may perceive
- Praised for investigating cultural diversity in perception which had been ignored by mainstream psychology at that time.
Theory basic
- Perception: Relative size, superimposition and linear perspective.
- Pictorial depth percpetion
- ambiguous figures
- all have possible links to racism, prejudice, discrimination.
Information
Jan Deregowski is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has spent his life investigating cultural differences in pictorial perception.