This study sought to compare Viktor Lowenfeld's Haptic Visual theory of perceptual types with Herman Witkin's Field Dependent, FieldIndependent classifications, since previous research indicated apparent similarities. The major objective was to compare the two theories by administering five perceptual tasks to 34 college students who had been classified into perceptual types according to Lowenfeld's and Witkin's criteria. Thirty-four randomly selected, female, elementary education majors from Wright State University were administered a series of five perceptual tasks involving visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic stimuli while an electroencephalograph (EEG) recorded their alpha wave responses eminating from the occipital lobe of the brain. Since alpha waves have consistently been found to be negatively associated with visual imagery, it was hypothesized that Lowenfeld's Haptic types, who theoretically function better through tactile and kinesthetic perception than through visual images, would produce a greater number of alpha waves during the specified time limit of each perceptual task, than the Visual type, who apparently relies upon his sense of vision as the dominant intermediary to his environment. It was further hypothesized that Witkin's Field Dependent types would correspond to the Haptic types, and the Field-Independent types would correspond to the Visual types as measured by the EEG.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/176914 |
| Date | January 1972 |
| Creators | Howell, A. Dean |
| Contributors | Reeves, Daniel J. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | vi, 110 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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