[Modification of autoregulation of intrinsic physical processes in field-dependent subjects: a study of performance in heart rate biofeedback].
Witkin, the founder of the concept of field dependence, assumed that there is a relationship between field dependence and body perception. 20 healthy subjects learned to increase and decrease their heart rate dependent upon two discriminative stimuli. Field dependent subjects were poorer at heart rate control on feedback and transfer trials than were subjects scoring low in field dependence.
The effect of adding a feedback and self charting condition to a tutoring program was investigated using a multiple baseline design. Three elementary school children referred because of reading problems were tu tored by undergraduates. After a baseline tutoring condition Ss were given a green chip for each sentence read correctly and a red chip for each sentence which contained an error. At the end of each session the Ss counted their chips and recorded them on a graph. The results indicated feedback and self charting substantially in creased the rate of sentences read correctly and for two Ss reduced their error rate.