Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigated the extent to which cognitive measures of individual differences predict strategy shifts in a series of procedural-motor curve-drawing tasks.College students participated in a task which required them to trace or draw various forms of a figure-8 before completing a battery of cognitive tests.Three distinct drawing strategies emerged, and the tendency to vary these strategies was quantified using Shannon's Entropy.The results indicated that participants employed multiple strategies early in a block of trials before eventually settling on a preferred strategy.Additionally, higher creativity scores were associated with higher entropy, whereas participants with higher verbal and working memory ability preferred to settle on their preferred strategy.
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2572485236