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This study examined the effects of two modeling procedures on subjects' performance of cognitive tasks. 57 female and 14 male participants were exposed to one of three conditions. A Cognitive Modeling group viewed a videotape in which examples of embedded figures were presented, accompanied by verbalization of strategies relevant to task performance. An Exemplar Modeling group observed the same examples without verbalization of strategies. A Control group did not view a videotape. The Cognitive Modeling group subsequently outperformed the Exemplar Modeling group which in turn outperformed the Control group on the Embedded Figures Test (a measure of field dependence-independence). Subjects in the Cognitive Modeling group were also able to identify more task-relevant strategies than either the Exemplar or Control groups on a post-experimental questionnaire. These gains did not generalize to performance on Progressive Matrices.

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Effects of Cognitive and Exemplar Modeling on Field Dependence-Independence

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