Field Dependence and Facial Recognition

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt Hoffman ◽  
Spencer Kagan
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

29 male and 28 female undergraduates were administered two measures of Witkin's field-dependence dimension—the Portable Rod-and-frame Test and the Group Embedded-figures Test—and a test of facial recognition. Field-independent males were significantly more accurate in the recognition of photographed human faces than field-dependent males. Field-independent females were also more accurate than field-dependent females, although the relation was nonsignificant. While it has often been claimed that field-dependent individuals remember faces better, the results of the present study, as well as others which have examined this relationship, support the opposite conclusion.

Social Compliance as a Function of Field Dependence

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Solar ◽  
Gerald Davenport ◽  
Dieter Bruehl
Keyword(s):  
Sign Test ◽  
Field Independence ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

To test Witkin's hypothesis that field-dependent individuals are socially compliant, 10 field-dependent and 10 field-independent Ss were selected on the basis of their performance on the Thurstone Embedded-figures Test and the Rod-and-frame Test (RFT). Each field-dependent S was then paired with a field-independent S and asked to cooperate in setting the rod to true vertical in the RFT. The obtained mean displacement from true vertical of the pair working together was in every case in the direction of greater field independence than the mean of the scores for the two individuals working alone ( p < .001, sign test). However, a posttest indicated that the RFT conformity of field-dependent Ss was confined to the paired situation. The Barron Independence of Judgment Scale significantly differentiated between field-dependent and field-independent Ss. The findings support Witkin's hypothesis that field-dependent Ss are socially compliant.

Strength of Association between Sex and Field Dependence

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary J. Allen ◽  
Mary E. Cholet
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Strength Of Association ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

An index of the strength of association between sex and each of two measures of field dependence, the Rod and Frame Test and Embedded Figures Test, was calculated based upon reported significant sex differences on these measures. Median ω 2 values based upon 20 rod-and-frame results and 18 embedded-figures results are .11 for the former and .12 for the latter. It appears that gender accounts for less than 15% of the variance in field-dependence scores.

Do Confusing Information and Egocentric Instructions Influence Perception?

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margery S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
College Men ◽  
Psychological Differentiation ◽  
Personality Dimension ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame ◽  
Better Than

In an investigation of psychological differentiation, Witkin's personality dimension, 12 field-dependent and 12 field-independent students were selected from a population of college men in summerschool based on their Embedded Figures Test scores. They were assigned to conditions, given egocentric or gravitational instructions, and provided clarified or obscuring feedback about their performance on the Rod and Frame Test. Although instructions had no effect, students with clarified feedback performed better than those whose feedback was confusing. Field-independent men had less difficulty with the confusing feedback than did field-dependent men.

Spanish Children's Scores on Children's Embedded Figures and Rod and Frame Tests

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1259-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Amador-Campos ◽  
Teresa Kirchner-Nebot
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Measure Field ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

The Children's Embedded Figures Test and the Rod and Frame Test were administered to 179 boys and 110 girls of an average age of 9.03 years to measure field dependence-independence. No significant gender-related differences were found on either test. Scores on these tests were moderately and significantly correlated.

Validation of a Children's Group Embedded Figures Test

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1259-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlaine E. Lockheed ◽  
Abigail M. Harris ◽  
Meredith K. Stone ◽  
Mary Lee Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Concurrent Validation ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Group Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

This paper describes the development and concurrent validation of a group-administered measure of field dependence for children. Subjects were 34 girls and 39 boys in the fourth-grade, and 35 girls and 40 boys in the fifth-grade. This measure was correlated with the Articulation of Body Concept measure for fourth-grade girls ( r = —.42) and boys ( r = —.59), and for fifth-grade girls ( r = —.64) and boys ( r = —.46). It was also correlated with scores on the Portable Rod-and-Frame Test for girls ( r = —.51) and boys ( r = —.39) at the fourth-grade.

Assessment of Field Dependence in Young Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideo Kojima
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Correlation Pattern ◽  
Spatial Concept ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Measuring Field ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

In a series of exploratory studies to develop instruments for measuring field dependence in young children, a total of 312 Japanese middle-class children, ages 5 to 6, served as subjects. Without changing the essential nature of the original test, the geometric Embedded-figures test attained relatively high internal consistency (KR-20 in the .80's) and stability ( R = .83 to .52, at intervals of 1.5 to 13 mo.). Correlation pattern between the Embedded Figures Test and Wechsler subscales similar to that of older subjects was influenced by the speed factor in embedded figures and Wechsler performance scales. Correlation between Kato's portable Rod-and-frame test and embedded figures was significant only in boys. In addition, the correlation pattern between the rod and frame and the preschool Wechsler was not consistent with Witkin's conceptualization. A newly developed darkroom Rod-and-Frame Test correlated with embedded figures for both sexes. Additional analyses indicated the need for more refined instructions to subjects regarding the concept of upright. Some children had more than one anchoring point for responding. Nyborg's scoring method and the relationship of Piagetian spatial concept to rod-and-frame performance are discussed.

Field-Dependence, Neuroticism, and Extraversion

1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Sell ◽  
Jane Johnson Duckworth
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Optimal Weights ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

A multiple regression analysis was used to predict Maudsley Personality Inventory extraversion scores from the rod-and-frame test, embedded-figures test, and Maudsley neuroticism scores of 66 undergraduate males. The results indicated that optimal weights of the neuroticism, embedded-figures, and rod-and-frame test upright scores contributed to prediction.

Sports Skill Classification, Gender, and Perceptual Style

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Brady
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Perceptual Style ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

This study was designed to examine the relationship of sport classification and gender to perceptual style. 102 male and female undergraduate students from open-skilled, closed-skilled and nonathletic groups were administered the Rod and Frame Test and the Embedded Figures Test. Analysis of variance indicated men to be more field independent than women on the Rod and Frame Test, while there were no gender differences on the Embedded Figures Test. Athletes performing open and closed skills scored significantly more field independent on the Rod and Frame Test than the nonathletes. There were no significant differences among the groups on the Embedded Figures Test. No correlation between the two measures of perceptual style was obtained.

Perceptual Correlates of the Rod-and-Frame Test

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1055-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Adevai ◽  
Albert J. Silverman ◽  
W. Edward Mc Gough
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Test Subject ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Male College ◽  
Perceptual Mode ◽  
Mirror Tracing ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

A randomly selected group of 92 male college students were given a battery of 10 perceptual tests, most of which have been used to separate field-independents from field-dependents in earlier studies of relationships between perceptual mode and physiological response tendencies. Test scores were factor analyzed in an attempt to define the psychological domain measured. Four factors accounted for most of the test score variance; the embedded figures test, sharing much of its variance with quantitative-spatial IQ tests, was the test with least of its variance accounted for. The rod-and-frame test, core test for field-dependence, correlated best with mirror-tracing speed, mirror-tracing accuracy, and the embedded figures test and had small or moderate positive correlations with all of the other tests except letter discrimination, which showed little relationship to any other test. Subject-controlled rod-and-frame correlated highly with experimenter-controlled rod-and-frame, suggesting their interchangeability as measures of field-dependence. Ss with rod-and-frame errors of 1.5° or less did significantly better on the rest of the perceptual battery than Ss with errors of 8° or more The embedded-figures test and the Draw-A-Person test were especially divergent for the two extreme rod-and-frame groups, suggesting their efficacy as screening devices for extreme field-dependents and independents.

Field Dependence: Experimenters' Expectancy, Sex Difference or No Difference?

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Munoz Peplin ◽  
Janet D. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Expectancy Effect ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame ◽  
Expected Outcomes

The possibility that sex differences found in previous research on field dependence may have been due partly to experimenters' expectancy was investigated. Three pairs of naive student-experimenters received different information about expected outcomes for males and females on the Rod and Frame Test and the Embedded Figures Test. There was no evidence of an experimenters' expectancy effect, but there was also no significant difference in the performance of men and women on these two tests of field dependence.

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