Adapting Witkin's Field Independence Theory to Accommodate New Information From Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5268822
AutoresMallory Wober (University of Edinburgh, autor correspondente)
Ano1967
Volume58
Fascículo1-2
Páginas29-38
Data de publicação1967-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01053.x
PMID5582867
OpenAlexW2016485622
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

Theories developed in America hold that the same cognitive style informs both the pattern of an individual's social relations and his performance in certain tests. The tests used in America have largely provided problems in a visual idiom. It is hypothesized that cultures found in Africa may attune skills relatively more highly in an auditory or proprioceptive, than in the visual sphere dominant in Euro-American cultures. Results using a visual, and a mixed visual and proprioceptive test suggest a different pattern of response from African than from American subjects. This is taken to show that the sameness of cognitive style through all fields of an individual's behaviour may not occur for Africans as it may for Americans. Differences of cognitive style for proprioceptive problems may have their own correlates of social behaviour patterns, and these remain to be studied

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive style · Developmental psychology · Independence (probability theory) · Proprioception · Social cognition · Style (visual arts) · Test (biology) · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology