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The purpose of this study is to determine whether the competency of the individual to sort information from his or her environment and selectively react to this information is influenced by such important variables as cognitive style. For the investigation Purposive randomized sampling technique will be employed to select the adults. Effective sample will be consist of 240 adult, in which 120 adults will be male, and another 120 adults will be female, male adults and female adults will equally classify in urban and rural, again both group from male adults (urban and rural) and female adults (urban and rural) will equally classify in high level of cognitive style and low level of cognitive style. To determine Pattern of cognitive style, Cognitive Style inventory (CSI) developed by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha, will be used, and To determine competency of the individual to separate the word and colour naming stimuli Stroop Colour and Word test standardized by  Charles J. Golden will be use. For the each subject, initially data of each group will be separately scrutinized by employing descriptive statistics i.e. mean and S.D. The statistical analysis will be mainly consisted of inferential statistics i.e. Two Way ANOVA with the help of SPSS. Outcome of result shows that the Competency to sort information and selectively react to this information as a Function of cognitive style.