Field Dependence and Memory for Incidental Material
- 1 December 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 21 (3) , 743-749
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1965.21.3.743
Abstract
30 female Ss who had been tested for recall and recognition of social and neutral words that were presented incidentally were administered a group form of the Embedded Figures Test. Both recall and recognition of social words were found to be significantly related to field dependence. No such relationship was found for neutral words. Although field-dependent Ss performed significantly more poorly on the focal task than field-independent Ss, recall and recognition was independent of performance on the focal task. It was also found that field-dependent Ss were able to recall more social visual incidental material than neutral visual incidental material.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Cognitive styles and memory for faces.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1964
- Evaluation of Group and Individual Forms of Embedded-Figures Measures of Field-Independence 1Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1964