Cultural Influence on Hutt's Adaptation of Bender Gestalt Test: A Pilot Study

To test the hypothesis that Hutt's Adaptation of the Bender Gestalt designs is “culture free,” two groups, one American and one East Indian of 21 graduate students, each majoring in Engineering or Sciences were administered the 9 designs of B-G in accordance with the three phases of Hutt's Adaptation of the B-G test. Results indicate: a) Performance on the Elaboration Phase on cards 2 and 4 was significantly different between the Groups, b) Ss in both Groups showed significantly different levels of difficulty in Copying the B-G designs, and c) There is no significant interaction between the Groups and the performance on the Copy Phase of the B-G designs.