Relationship between field dependence-independence and the g factor: What can problem-solving strategies tell us?

Remy, Ludovic; Gilles, Pierre‐Yves

doi:10.1016/j.erap.2014.02.001

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“…FI is usually associated with superior performance on a range of cognitive and academic tests (Tinajero & Paramo, 1997, 1998), while FD is negatively related to sustained visuospatial attention (Amador-Campos & Kirchner-Nebot, 1999). Higher intelligence and creativity and the use of more efficient cognitive strategies are characteristics more readily observed in people with FI (Noppe & Gallagher, 1977; Remy & Gilles, 2014), indicating that FI is particularly beneficial for young people who are typically engaged in many novel learning experiences and in novel problem-solving.…”

Section: Fd or Fi And Cognitive Agingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Age-Related Changes in Field Dependence–Independence and Implications for Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Review

Chan

Jin

2018

Percept Mot Skills

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Human aging is a dynamic life-long process and an inevitable experience. As the average age of the world's population rises, demands for effective geriatric rehabilitation dramatically increase. An important consideration for enhancing geriatric behavioral interventions is to better understand aging characteristics in perceptual, cognitive, and motor performances. A general shift in cognitive style from field independence to field dependence has been consistently observed during human aging, as older adults show a greater tendency to rely on environmental information, presumably reflecting a neuro-compensatory mechanism of reducing top-down control and relying instead on bottom-up processing. These changes in cognitive style can impact motor skill learning and relearning and, consequently, affect geriatric rehabilitation and behavioral treatments. In this article, we review research related to the cognitive style of field dependence and independence, and its dynamic associations with aging. We also identify implications of cognitive style for geriatric rehabilitation and explore future research.

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Section: Fd or Fi And Cognitive Agingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Age-Related Changes in Field Dependence–Independence and Implications for Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Review

Chan

Jin

2018

Percept Mot Skills

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“…According to some critics, the first generation of methods assessed cognitive ability rather than cognitive style (e.g., Evans et al, 1013;Rittschof, 2010;Sternberg & Grigorenko, 1997;Tiedemann, 1989;Kozhevnikov, 2007) since unsuitably high associations of cognitive style with general intelligence (e.g., Cooperman, 1980;Cuneo et al, 2018;Flexer & Roberge, 1980;McKenna, 1984;Riding & Pearson, 1994;Widiger et al, 1980;Weisz et al, 1975;Tinajero & Páramo, 1997;Vernon, 1972;Rémy & Gilles, 2014), spatial ability (e.g., Boccia et al, 2016;MacLeod et al, 1986;Zhang et al, 2004), working memory (e.g., Bahar & Hansell, 2000;Miyake et al, 2011), attention (e.g., Fitzgibbons et al, 1965;Guisande et al, 2007), and academic achievement (Páramo & Tinajero, 1990;Tinajero & Páramo, 1997) have been found in previous studies.…”

Section: Old Controversymentioning

confidence: 99%

Analytic and Holistic Cognitive Style as a Set of Independent Manifests: Evidence from a Validation Study of Six Measurement Instruments

Lacko¹,

Prošek²,

Čeněk³

et al. 2021

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Cognitive styles are commonly studied constructs in cognitive psychology. It can be argued that measurement of these styles in the past had significant shortcomings in validity and reliability. The theory of analytic and holistic cognitive styles followed from traditional research of cognitive styles and attempted to overcome these shortcomings. Unfortunately, the psychometric properties of its measurement methods in many cases were debatable or not reported. New statistical approaches, such as analysis of reaction times, have been reported in the recent literature but remain overlooked by current research on analytic and holistic cognitive styles. The aim of this pre-registered study was to verify the psychometric properties (i.e., factor structure, split-half reliability, test-retest reliability, discriminant validity with intelligence and personality, and divergent, concurrent and predictive validity) of several methods routinely applied in the field. We developed/adapted six methods, and selected several types frequently applied in cognitive style research: self-report questionnaires, methods based on rod-and-frame test principles, embedded figures, and methods based on hierarchical figures. The analysis was conducted on 392 Czech participants, with two data collection waves. The results indicate that the use of self-report questionnaires and methods based on the rod-and-frame principle may be unreliable, demonstrating unsatisfactory factor structure and no absence of association with intelligence. The use of embedded and hierarchical figures is recommended. Because the concurrent and divergent validity of the methods did not correspond with the original two-dimensional theory, we formulated a new three-level hierarchical model of analytic and holistic cognitive styles which better described our empirical findings.

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“…Performance on the EFT has been shown to associate with global and local processing (Poirel et al, ), spatial thinking (Rémy & Gilles, ), and orientation abilities (Boccia, Piccardi, Di Marco, Pizzamiglio, & Guariglia, ), as well as general cognitive abilities (Flexer & Roberge, ; Miyake, Witzki, & Emerson, ). This has resulted in a lack of clarity about what FI represents (Evans, Richardson, & Waring, ).…”

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“…The literature sometimes describes FI in perceptual terms, where success is related to overcoming the Gestalt principles of proximity, similarity, and good continuation (De‐Wit et al, ; Van der Hallen et al, ). However, it is also described in cognitive terms, as the extent to which individuals are able to analyze and restructure a given stimulus to solve a problem that requires details to be decontextualized (Pithers, ; Rémy & Gilles, ; Witkin, Moore, Goodenough, & Cox, ). In both the EFT and Block Design tasks, the visual stimulus needs to be reinterpreted by being parsed into smaller elements.…”

Section: Measures Of Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

Field Independence Associates with Mathematics and Science Performance in 5‐ to 10‐Year‐Olds after Accounting for Domain‐General Factors

Morris

Farran

Dumontheil

2019

Mind Brain and Education

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Field independence describes the extent to which individuals are influenced by context when trying to identify embedded targets. It associates with cognitive functioning and is a predictor of academic achievement. However, little is known about the neural and cognitive underpinnings of field independence that lead to these associations. Here, we investigated behavioral associations between two measures of field independence (Children's Embedded Figures Test [CEFT] and Design Organization Test [DOT]) and performance on tests of mathematics (reasoning and written arithmetic) and science (reasoning and scientific inquiry) in 135 children aged 5–10 years. There were strong associations between field independence and mathematics and science, which were largely explained by individual differences in age, intelligence, and verbal working memory. However, regression analyses indicated that after controlling for these variables, the CEFT explained additional variance on the mathematical reasoning and science tests, whereas the DOT predicted unique variance on the written arithmetic test.

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Relationship between field dependence-independence and the g factor: What can problem-solving strategies tell us?

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Age-Related Changes in Field Dependence–Independence and Implications for Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Review

Age-Related Changes in Field Dependence–Independence and Implications for Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Review

Analytic and Holistic Cognitive Style as a Set of Independent Manifests: Evidence from a Validation Study of Six Measurement Instruments

Field Independence Associates with Mathematics and Science Performance in 5‐ to 10‐Year‐Olds after Accounting for Domain‐General Factors

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