title: Intuition, cognitive style, and hemispheric processing.
abstract: 200 undergraduate volunteers were administered Westcott's Test of Intuitive Ability, Witkin's Group Embedded Figures Test, Paivio's Revised Individual Differences Questionnaire, and visual and aural dominance measures using a three-field tachistoscope and dichotic listening device, respectively. Field dependence was consistently related to poorer intuitive performance. No sex-related differences were found on intuition, embedded figures, Paivio's questionnaire, or dominance scores although the amount of intuition explained by cognitive style and dominance differed by hand and gender. Visual-verbal style was not associated with dominance while the relation of field dependence-independence and dominance was inconsistent. Neither dominance nor visual-verbal style was consistently related to intuition although complicated associations were indicated by hand and sex, suggesting differences in cognitive organization.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012737:Sex Factors; D013067:Speech Perception