VISUAL INFORMATION-PROCESSING WITH OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE AND HYSTERIC PERSONALITIES

Utilizing a visual processing task, the study explored whether or not global information processing was more characteristic of hysteric indi viduals and more focused, local information processing was characteris tic of obsessive-compulsive individuals. Subjects performed speeded cl assification card sorting tasks on Navon (1977) types figures (large l etters whose subcomponents are smaller letters) which are presumed to tap local and global aspects of information processing. Personality fa ctors did not seem to influence local or global precedence. Thus the g roups may not vary at early levels of information processing, contrary to some theoretical positions.