Field independence and intellectual functioning in preschool children.
In order to determine whether performance on the Preschool Embedded-figures Test, a measure of field independence for young children, involves processes shared by aspects of intellectual functioning, a factor analysis which included the Preschool Embedded-figures Test and all of the subtests of the WPPSI was carried out on a group of 169 4-1/2-yr.-olds. For both sexes the Preschool Embedded-figures Test loaded a common factor shared also by WPPSI Block Design and Geometric Design. This factor was identified as a perceptual analytic factor and was demonstrated to be similar to the analytic factor identified by Goodenough and Karp (1961) at older age levels.
D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors