The Gifted Child

Abstract

Culturally deprived Negro children and non-deprived children were asked to view twelve pairs of figures, one pair at a time. Ss indicated which of the figures in each pair was inverted. The results support other findings that a relatedness exists between focal point location and inversion perception with lower focal point positions tending to elicit responses indicating inversion. A chi-square test indicated culturally deprived Negro children on the preschool level were significantly (p>.01) different from non-culturally deprived children. Difference" between first- grade culturally deprived Negro children and non-culturally deprived children were not significant. Inversion perception responses of first-grade deprived Negro children were not significantly different from non-culturally deprived pre-primary children.