Stability of whole vs part perceptions of visual stimuli.
In two experiments, college undergraduates (ns = 29, 30) were asked to describe in writing two different abstract line drawings. Responses were classified by over-all orientation to the whole or the individual parts of each drawing. Although findings of the two experiments were very similar, analysis indicated that no strong reliability of orientation existed across the two drawings.
D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012718:Set, Psychology