Processos Atencionais e Dependência-Independência de Campo:: Estudo com Crianças e Adolescentes Portugueses

• Autor(a) principal: Guisande, M. Adelina
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Leandro S., Ponte, Filomena Ermida da, Tinajero, Carolina, Páramo, M. Fernanda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17420
• topic: Estilo cognitivo; Dependência-independência de campo; Processos de atenção; Cognitive style; Field dependence-independence; Attention processes

The present study relates the “field dependence-independence” cognitive style to the performance on tasks involving several attention processes and resources. With a 98 Portuguese children and 95 Portuguese adolescents sample, four attention tasks were applied: storage capacity (Digits Forward Test); verbal working memory (Digits Backward Test); capacity to focus, shift, and maintain attention (Digit Symbol Test); and capacity for sustained attention (Visual Search and Attention Test, VSAT). It was also applied a factor g test for intelligence control. Results showed differences on attention processes between field-dependence and field-independence cognitive styles. These differences are more evident in the children subgroup on VSAT. These results open new research topics to explain lowest academic performance of field-dependent children.