Field dependence and distraction revisited.
An attempt is made to replicate a former study of the relationship of field dependence as measured by rod-and-frame errors to distraction in an RT paradigm. For two groups of Ss (n = 14) who differed specifically in their dependence upon the tilted frame and were classified as frame-dependent and frame-independent, no relationship of frame (or field) dependence to susceptibility to distraction was found.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise; D011930:Reaction Time