cross cultural studies
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- Created on: 18-04-15 11:19
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- Perceptual development- cross cultural studies
- depth perception- Turnball, Kenge bambuti pygmy. saw distant buffalo as insects
- testing the use of pictorial cues- Hudson. bantu, European and indian children. an antelope, elephant and man with spear. beg of primary all had difficulty
- pictorial depth perception- jahoda and mcgurk, Scottish and ghanain children. woman child and bird.
- visual constancies- shape constancy- allport and Pettigrew, Zulus could not see trapezoid window illusion
- size constancy- Segall et al, Zulus were less affected by the illusion than Europeans and americans.
- methodological probems- imposed etic, representativeness- communication difficulties
- language- Page (1970) changed the question asked by Hudson.
- pictorial interpretation- reasons for performing badly could be due to not understanding the depth cues. epitomic (silouttes ie hudson), eidolic (look 3d even when impossible figures)- jahoda
- IDA- a biological appraoach- pigementation of the retina varies with skin colour. non human animal research- hard to generalise
- depth perception- Turnball, Kenge bambuti pygmy. saw distant buffalo as insects
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