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Review: Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
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Review: Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
The
article “Poor
Cognitive Flexibility in Eating Disorders,” was written by Tchanturia et al.
(2012) with the primary objective of discussing the flexibility of one’s cognitive
ability considering eating disorder factors.
The study adopted a scientific methodology in collecting primary data.
Through a quantitative technique, the researchers used a sample size of 542
participants. These respondents were clustered into four clusters: Anorexia
Nervosa (AN) n = 171; Bulimia Nervosa (BN) n = 82; Recovered AN n = 90, and Healthy
controls (HC): n = 199 (Tchanturia et al., 2012, p. 2). The participants, in
their respective groups, were asked to fill a Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
(WCST) which was formulated in a way to identify problem-solving cognitive
ability.
The result of the
study indicated that the respondents who were in the categories of Anorexia
Nervosa (AN) and those under Bulimia Nervosa (BN) performed poor to the test
sample. Since the scale was set to show the level of mental flexibility, the
authors concluded that people under the (AN) and the (BN) class had low mental
flexibility. Additionally, the study revealed that the recovered patients, AN,
portrayed a high level of cognitive flexibility. The best performers were those in the (HC)
class. This finding can be interpreted to indicate that participants with
eating disorders had a low ability to adapt to changes in the thinking process.
As such, they are not quick to solve unexpected problems; mostly those
requiring critical thinking.
The main strength of the researchers' work is their...
