Relationship of rod-and-frame scores to dream recall
| Autor: | Ronald N. Bone, Della L. Kinsolving, Teresa A. Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 1972 |
| Předmět: |
Introductory psychology
Male Psychological Tests Recall Dream recall Field Dependence-Independence Dream diary humanities Field independence Developmental psychology Large sample Dreams Memory Frame (artificial intelligence) Humans Female Psychology psychological phenomena and processes General Psychology Repression-Sensitization |
| Zdroj: | Psychological reports. 30(1) |
| ISSN: | 0033-2941 |
| Popis: | Equivocal evidence exists as to the relationship of dream recall to field independence. Although previous work (Witkin, Dyk, Faterson, Goodenough, & Karp, 1962) showed field independents recalled more, Montgomery and Bone (1970) employing an Identical-figures Task obcained no such relationship. Considering these findings the present scudy was designed to clarify this area both by employing a large sample and two measures of dream recall. Rod-and-frame scores, average deviacion from vertical over 8 trials, were obtained from 86 male and 90 female introductory psychology students. Ss were asked to race their questionnaire dream recall on a 7-poinc scale, high scores reflecting greater recall. Dream diary recall was assessed by the number of dreams recalled upon awakening over a 24-day period. Product-moment correlations were computed. Rod-and-frame correlations were -.06, -.I8 and -.I1 for the questionnaire measure and .21, -.I4 and .03 for the diary measure for male, female and total data respectively. Field independence was not significantly related to either index for the total group and women, although it was in the predicted direction (Witkin, et al., 1962). While data for men follow the same pattern for the questionnaire index, significance was actained for the diary measure (p < .05) but in the opposite direction (e.g., field-dependenc men recall more dreams). This is difficult co reconcile with Witkin's (1970) hypothesis that field-dependents rely on repression and should recall fewer dreams. Repression, however, has recently been questioned as an explanatory mechanism (Bone, Nelson, & McAllister, 1970) for failure to recall dreams. No explanation for these data is proposed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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