The Influence of Thinking Styles and Abstract Reasoning Ability on Searching Behavior of Image Searching Tasks.

• Main Authors: Chen Chia Yun, 陳家韻
• Other Authors: Chuen-Tsai Sun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30805443239491311233

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 理學院碩士在職專班網路學習學程 === 95 === "Searching" is the process of solving questions. The individual psychological operation and the behavior operational difference both affect searching performance. The question features also affect individual searching strategies. This research attempts to present the questions through the images, and use the thinking styles scope grouping to be the discussed factor of the individual difference when the individual processes the questions. The ability of inducing the principles in the non-writing images for reasoning is called abstract reasoning ability. It corresponds with the images comparison and inference of solving questions in this study. Therefore, it takes thinking styles and abstract reasoning ability to be the single varied item for this research to probe into the influence of different thinking styles and high or low abstract reasoning ability on searching behavior and the searching result in image questions. It takes the second year students of senior high vocational school to be the objects of this study. Through the searching of images questions, students begin to search according to the clues and the characteristics which are provided by the images. It limits students to use only two types of search engine functions—image search and homepage search. Each task takes ten minutes. The entire search process will be recorded by the automatic screen recorder & monitor software to quantify students searching behavior and to estimate searching result. The findings point out the thinking styles scope and the abstract reasoning ability both can affect the searching result. The comprehensive students score conspicuously higher than the detailed students in the image questions searching. The high scores group in abstract reasoning ability scores conspicuously higher than the low scores group. In the searching behavior, the detailed students are more than the comprehensive students in the quantities of using keywords and the times of clicking homepage search. Moreover, for the quantities of repeated using keywords, the detailed students are more than the comprehensive students. The keywords which the comprehensive students use cover broader concepts, and the detailed students comparatively limits in a particular characteristic concept. In the browsing homepage behavior, the comprehensive students primarily glance over the pictures, but the detailed students both browse pictures and also try to understand the homepage content with no pictures. The detailed students spend so much time on searching and trying to change keywords in searching process that they are unable to finish the searching task in time.