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Cognitive Differentiation, Automaticity, and Interruptions of Automatized Behaviors

Eastern New Mexico University

Richard Reardon

University of Oklahoma

The construct of field dependence-independence was explored with respect to individual efficacy in forming automatized sequences. Thirty-six female subjects developed and used such sequences. They experienced either severe, mild, or no interruption of the sequences at various points during 60 trials (such that each trial was a repetition of the sequence). Attention deployment to task-relevant and task-relevant material during these interruptions was assessed using recognition confidence measures. Results indicated that the distinction between task-relevant and task-relevant items was important to both field-dependent and field-independent subjects: Field-dependent subjects incorporated more task-relevant material as an attentional focus and monitored both kinds of material more closely when the sequence was not interrupted. The opposite was true for field independent subjects, who were also faster in forming the sequence.

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