Adolescents' visual preference for color over form

This study is concerned with the visual preference for color over form among the Yoruba adolescents of Nigeria. The hypothesis is that Yoruba adolescent boys are more likely to demonstrate superior performance in a task involving cultural differences in visual selective attention preference for color over form than girls. One hundred 16-year-old adolescent boys and girls were randomly drawn from two secondary schools for this study. The instrument used was the Visual Selective Attention Color-Form Matching Experiment. Computation was carried out with a chi-square 2 X 2 contingency analysis. Results indicated that the hypothesis reached a .001 statistical level of significance. The theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.