title: Psychological differentiation and performance on conditional reasoning tasks.
abstract: The relationship between psychological differentiation and performance on three content types (concrete-plausible, concrete-implausible, symbolic) of conditional reasoning tasks was investigated. Using intelligence as a covariate, field-independent subjects (n = 94) in Grade 8 performed significantly better than field-dependent subjects (n = 121) on each type of content. A significant interaction was found. Greater differences between field independent and field-dependent subjects were observed for concrete-implausible and symbolic contents than for concrete-plausible content.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013850:Thinking