The relationship between cognitive style and global/local processing: Is cognitive style alterable?

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380989
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Kyoto Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Hakoda Yuji 京都女子大学, 発達教育学部, 教授 (50117214)
• Research Collaborator: Song Yongning 華東師範大学, 心理と認知科学院, 副教授 ; Takebayashi Hikari 京都女子大学, 発達教育学部
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: cognitive style / global / local / rod-frame test / field-dependent / field-independent / Navon

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The concepts of cognitive style and global/local processing are derived from the same source, Gestalt psychology. The former is explained as stable individual traits, however, the latter is construed as variable processing mode. In this study, we explored the causal relationship between these concepts and got the following findings:We found that the field-dependency characteristics of cognitive styles was alterable by global/local task, depending the task time and the illumination condition of the experimental laboratory.
These results suggest that the performance of the cognitive style task doesn't reflect the stable individual cognitive traits, but alterable processing mode, depending various conditions.

Free Research Field

認知心理学