title: Distractors interfere with numerical estimation in Chinese college students as a function of field-dependent or field-independent cognitive style.
abstract: Field-dependent/independent groups' numerical estimation was assessed with respect to different distractors. Participants were 81 college students with field-dependent or field-independent cognitive styles. Cognitive style had a significant main effect on reaction without distractors. When the number of distractors was double the number of targets, the estimation accuracy of the field-dependent and field-independent groups differed. Under this double-distractors condition, both the field-dependent and field-independent participants used logarithmic representation more than linear representation in their numerical estimations, but no significant between-group differences were found.
authors: School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.
authors: Jihong
authors: J
authors: Xu
authors: Ji-Wei
authors: JW
authors: Si
authors: Wenxin
authors: W
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult