The relationship between perceptual egocentrism and field-dependence in early childhood.

Fifty-three kindergarten children were administered tests of inductive reasoning and field-dependence and a series of perceptual egocentrism tasks. The principal expectation of the study, that field-dependence would relate positively to perceptual egocentrism, was confirmed. Perceptual egocentrism was found to be independent of induction for the age range studied; however the relatively low correlations obtained between the field-dependence measures and their common relationship with induction led to the questioning of the validity of the field-dependence construct in early childhood.