Information-processing differences and laterality of students from different colleges and disciplines.
1023 college students were assessed for hemispheric brain dominance using the paper-and-pencil test, the Human Information Processing Survey. Analysis of scores of students majoring in Advertising, Interior Design, Music, Journalism, Art, Oral Communication, and Architecture suggested a preference for right-brain hemispheric processing, while scores of students majoring in Accounting, Management, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Nursing, Funeral Service, Criminal Justice, and Elementary Education suggested a preference for left-hemispheric strategies for processing information. The differential effects of hemispheric processing in an educational system emphasizing the left-hemispheric activities of structured logic and sequential processing suggests repression of the intellectual development of those students who may be genetically favorable to right-hemispheric processing.
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Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Central State University, Edmond, OK 73034-0176.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D003210:Concept Formation; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*