Author: Thomas Dean PowersPublisher:
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Category : Cognitive styles
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Zaborac (unpublished, 1979) examined the cpgnitive style characteristics of 36 adult retardates. The distributions and interrelationships of the cognitive style dimensions of field dependence/independence, as measured by the Children's Embedded Figures Test (CEFT), impulsiveness/reflectiveness, as measured by the 1atching Familiar Figures Test C:HFFT), introversion/extraversion, as measured by the Lemon Juice Salivation Test (LJST), and locus of control, as measured by the Vertical Aspiration Board (VAB), were analyzed. The retarded subjects were found to be significantly more extraverted when the amount of salivation was compared to norms established by Corcoran (1964), Casey and McManis (1971), and NcManis, McCarthy, and Koval (1978). Retarded subjects were also found to be significantly more externally controlled when shift scores were compared to baseline scores in terms of the subjects' baseline mean and standard deviation. A significant positive correlation was found between CEFT scores and MFFT latency scores as well as a significant negative correlation between CEFT scores and HFFT error scores. The present study was designed as an attempt to replicate the study by Zaborac (unpublished, 1979) using 16 adult retarded subjects. The CEFT was used to place subjects on the dimension of field dependence/independence; the MFFT was the measure used to place subjects on the dimension of impulsiveness/reflectiveness; the LJST was the measure used to assess introversion/extraversion; and the VAB was used to place subjects on the dimension of internality/externality. It was hypothesized that the retarded subjects would be significantly more extraverted, field dependent, impulsive, and externally controlled, and that significant correlations would exist between each of the cognitive style measures, as well as between each cognitive style measure and mental age (MA). Ten female retarded Ss and six retarded males, ranging in age from 20.5 years to 51 years and ranging in IQ 44-68, were given the CEFT, the MFFT, the LJST, the VAB, and the Slosson Intelligence Test, administered in a sequence determined by test and subject availability. Differences in the proportion of Ss classified as field dependent/independent, impulsive/reflective, introversion/extraverted, and internally/externally controlled, were analyzed by the Binomial probability distribution. Corrrelations between each measure and correlations with each measure and MA were made using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient. The retarded Ss were found to be significantly more field dependent (p = .01, more extraverted (p= .001), and more externally controlled (p
