Stile cognitivo visualizzatore in relazione ad abilità immaginative e spaziali
Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Carolina Mega, Alessia Canella, Francesca Pazzaglia
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2009/1
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 47-63 File size 430 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIP2009-001003
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The present research investigates the relationship of cognitive styles to spatial and imagery abilities, and also explores gender differences, using a sample of 86 students attending high-school in Padua (Italy). Cognitive style was assessed using three questionnaires: Verbalizer-Visualizer (Richardson, 1977), Object- Spatial Imagery (Blajenkova, Kozhevnikov & Motes, 2006a), and Cognitive Style (Kozhevnikov, Kosslyn & Shephard, 2005). Spatial and imagery abilities were measured using the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (Marks, 1973) and the Mental Rotation Test (Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978). Two different types of visualizer cognitive style were identified, involving distinct informationprocessing approaches: spatial visualizers, who prefer schematic images of the spatial relations between objects and perform well on spatial ability tasks; and object visualizers, who score higher than spatial visualizers on measures of vividness of mental images. Gender differences are also reported, with males outperforming females for several spatial scores.
Carolina Mega, Alessia Canella, Francesca Pazzaglia, Stile cognitivo visualizzatore in relazione ad abilità immaginative e spaziali in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA " 1/2009, pp 47-63, DOI: 10.3280/RIP2009-001003