ISSUES IN TESTING FOR PROCESSING CAPACITY - PORTRAIT OF CONVERGENT VALIDITY WITH OBLIQUE ROTATIONS IN THE BACKGROUND

Commenting on a note by Steven Pulos, it is argued that a relationship between processing capacity and field independence, reported by Case and Globerson (1974) and Morra and Scopesi (1988), is compatible with the view that field independence tests are also demanding in terms of processing capacity. This does not imply that one should refrain from using a battery of tests in measuring M capacity. It is also noted tha t our previous research emphasised convergent validity because of curr ent rhetorical needs, and we agree with Pulos that the nature of the r elationship between processing capacity and other abilities deserves t o be investigated more deeply.