ABSTRACT

UInformation-processing" had not become the catch phrase it is today, but we can assume that Sargent was thinking of what we now call information processing when he wrote about "methods of work" and "behavioral processes." And when he mentioned "important aspects of personalities," perhaps he was thinking of what we would now call "cognitive styles." In this paper I will not concern myself with cognitive styles, but I will address the question of how we can get at the methods of work and the behavioral processes that presumably underlie individual differences in cognitive abilities.