This paper points out the importance of considering intertrial variability of a subject's performance on the rod-and-frame task. It is argued that such variability has significant implications for cognitive-perceptual constructs such as field-dependence—independence. For illustration, scores on the rod and frame are presented for a group of 32 psychiatric inpatients.
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