Culture and Tendencies to Draw Objects in Internal Visual Perspective

Abstract

Samples from nine countries ( ns = 100) representing three cultures: Eastern (Japan, China, and India), European (France, Norway, and Germany), and Western (United States, Canada, and the Virgin Islands) were compared on their ability to visualize objects from an unusual (internal) visual perspective on Activity 3 (circles) of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (1974, 1975, 1977), Form B. Inter-cultural as well as intra-cultural differences were found, and Eastern cultures demonstrated a significantly greater frequency of internal visualizations than did European and Western cultures, when a streamlined scoring procedure was used.