Culture

• Culture

  The social world that surrounds you
• Aim

  Hudson aimed to find out whether people from different cultural/educational backgrounds perceived depth cues in 2D images differently
• Method

  Black South-Africans were shown 2D drawings (schooled and unschoolded) and white Europeans (schooled and unschooled)

  Participants had to say which animal the man was trying to spear

  Depth cues suggest that the spear was actually being aimed at the antelope not the elephant
• Results

  Many beleives the spear wad aimed at the elephant

  Schooled participants were more likely to perceive the depth cue than unschooled participants

  White schooled participants were more likely to perceive the depth cue than black schooled participants
• Conclusion

  People from different cultural/educational backgrounds use depth cues differently and have a different perceptual set

  This supports Gregory's theory
• Evaluation

  Cross-Cultural research- Instructions may lack sense, language barrier may mean that translations were unclear. Lacks validity

  Problems with the method- Some participants weren't used to seeing drawings on paper