Individual differences in the detection of embedded figures |
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Authors: | Howard S. Hock Gregory P. Gordon Norman Marcus |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 33432, Boca Raton, Florida 3. The Johns Hopkins University, 21218, Baltimore, Maryland
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Abstract: | The individual differences in processing obtained by Hock (1973) were extended to two experiments in which the embedded figures test was recast into the form of a yes-no reaction time task. Ss emphasizing analytic processes detected the embedded figures more rapidly than Ss emphasizing structural processes, supporting the hypothesis that attention to the parts of the embedded figures was the strategy most appropriate for the task. Based on the interaction between familiarity (normal vs rotated orientation) and embeddedness (intact vs embedded figures), it was concluded in both experiments that familiarity facilitated the detection of the embedded figures for analytic Ss. For structural Ss, familiarity was similarly found to facilitate the detection of the embedded figures, but only when a template-matching strategy was possible (when the target figure and the embedded figure were physically identical). |
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