Cognitive style

as being disobedient. In reality, it is impossible for a child to learn in a way that does not appeal to him or her. Each student has his or her own learning style (also called cognitive style). It is the job of a teacher to introduce different learning styles. So that, the student is able to…

Cognitive development relates to the ability of children and adolescent to think and reason, according to Stanford’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. As children grows they begin to think more concrete. In adolescence, children begin to think more complex such as reasoning and developing their own thoughts, forming a personal code of ethics, planning for the future, and developing their own ideas, and during this time cognitive development can be effected by the way parents treat and raise…

Cognitive styles are ways that people perceive, think, and solve problems (Witkin, Moore, Goodenough, & Cox, 1977). They are stable attitudes, preferences, or habitual strategies that people use to learn and relate to others (Messick, 1976). They are psychological dimensions that represent consistencies in how an individual acquires and processes information (Ausburn &Ausburn,1978; Messick,1984). Researchers proposed one important Cognitive style: field-dependence and field-independence. A…

Relationship of Teachers’ Cognitive Styles to Pupils’ Academic Achievement Gains by Saracho and Dayton was published in the Journal of Educational Psychology in 1980. Saracho and Dayton discuss the relationship between teacher and student cognitive styles and their effectiveness in education. In a country that continues to lose ground on a world ranking for education, the need for reform is an ever present political issue. The study by Saracho and Dayton can prove helpful if a district is…

Cognitive Ability and Prejudice Contrasts that foresee prejudice has intrigued social and personality psychologist since Allport 's time and research has set up the relationship between an assortment of individual differences and prejudice. One example of individual difference would be (low) cognitive ability. With the new theoretical models being developed, they help to account for social and psychological factors that merge its association with prejudice. “These theoretical perspectives…

2.2 Relevant to other similar concepts 2.2.1 Learning style and Cognitive style In the field of research relating to language teaching and learning, the two terms “learning style” and “cognitive style” are often used interchangeably. Several researchers have tried to define the differences between the two types such as : Allport (1937) clarifies the differences by stating cognitive style is individual’s typical ways of processing such as problem solving, thinking, perceiving and remembering. In…

We’ve grown up with mobile phones, in the middle of the never ending consumer battles between big companies like Apple and Microsoft. Because this is our reality we need to be informed about the physiological effects technology has on us. That being said, we can’t entirely change ourselves, but we can be more conscious about how our thinking has developed and understand how we can improve as individuals with technology. I recently read a research paper by Katherine N. Hayles proclaiming that…

peers, culture, and gender, it is believed that parents are the major factors that impact their children’s development. Many studies have been conducted in order to discover the different parenting styles in existence as well as their effects on the psychological and behavioral development of children. Diana Baumrind, a psychological researcher, conducted a study in the 1960s about parenting styles in which she discovered the four main factors that when combined in different…

After a thorough analysis of Captain Vere and his judgment of Billy in her essay “The Execution of Billy Budd”, Barbara Johnson concludes, “what this means is that every judge is in the impossible position of having to include the effects of his own act of judging within the cognitive context of his decision” (Johnson, 599). Captain Vere is worried that, should he mitigate Billy’s penalty, despite the crew’s and his own feelings that Billy’s sentence is too harsh, a precedent may be set that…

seem to effectively match their language with their intended audience through careful word choice. The style that is chosen to deliver each advocate’s purposes differs due to their audience, Obama’s style of distribution to her audience appears to be a traditional and persuasive format; Rose’s style of distribution seems to be an informative and formal format. Obama audience consists of graduate students; though they do not have the same educational background as Obama, she can relate to them…