Popular response : different ways of perceiving the world

RICHAUD DE MINZI, M.C.; CARLA SACCHI

PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS

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Año: 1991 vol. 72 p. 67 - 72

0031-5125

The present paper studied Popular responses to the Holtzman Inkblot Technique by Argentine children. The aims of the study were to assess whether Universal Popular responses reported by Knudsen, Gorham, and Moseley appeared also among Argentine children and to analyze how differences on certain intracultural variables, such as social marginality, modified Popular responses. Form A of the test was administered to 593 children attending Grades 4, 5, 6, and 7. Their ages ranged from 9 to 12 year. This group was subdivided on social integration, yielding a socialiy marginal group of 57 and a socialiy integrated one of 536. We noted 15 concepts consideredniversal Popular answers were identical for this group, Knudsen´s and Holtzman´s normative groups universal Popular answers were identical for this group, Knudsen´s and Holtzman´s normative groups. The responses from the nonmarginal Argentine group were corn-pared with those of the socialiy marginal Argentine group. Contents characteristic of each group suggest the nonmarginal group gave more elaborated and more differentiated responses than those of the marginal group.