Pattern Reproduction In Two Cultures

Abstract

The study examines pattern reproduction in Scottish and Bukusu samples at four age levels using a modified version of the PATCO test. An error analysis provided support for the view that the cognitive processes underlying pattern reproduction are universal. Significant cultural differences in the frequency of orientation errors were found. These, it was hypothesised, reflected the relative difficulty of differentiating the concept of sameness for Bukusu subjects. The results also confirm previous studies which used Kohs‐type figures as stimulus patterns.

Seeing the impossible and building the likely

“…There are, as Bentley (1977Bentley ( , 1980 has shown, considerable cross-cultural differences in the former, and these differences may parallel those observed in studies of perception of pictorial depth; it is, however, uncertain in what manner, if any, the two phenomena are related.…”