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Processing Differences in Relations between Ability and Field-Independence

Author(s) -

Bruce M. Shore,

Judidale Hymovitch,

Susanne P. Lajoie

Publication year - 1982

Publication title -

psychological reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645

H-Index - 67

eISSN - 1558-691X

pISSN - 0033-2941

DOI - 10.2466/pr0.1982.50.2.391

Subject(s) - psychology , independence (probability theory) , cognitive style , flexibility (engineering) , cognition , cognitive psychology , spatial ability , test (biology) , field dependence , field (mathematics) , developmental psychology , cognitive flexibility , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , magnetic field , pure mathematics , biology

Scores on 21 tests of field-independence and convergent and divergent thinking from 375 adolescents were correlated and factor analyzed. Significant small to moderate correlations of ability and field independence were noted. Boys possibly used spatial cues directly on tasks of field-independence scores and girls verbal skills to transform the tasks to areas of their cognitive strength. Scores were interpreted as style not sex differences. A new look at test performance was proposed in terms of adapting tests to one's strengths in addition to accommodating to the demands of tests in the consideration of cognitive flexibility

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