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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Thinking style"”.
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The relationship between thinking style differences and career choice for high-achieving high school students
… students' career decision-making associated with thinking styles and to examine factors influencing career choices. A causal-comparative research design and correlational research design were used, with a sample of 209 high school students. Data were gathered from two International Baccalaureate …
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Relationship between levels of perceived leadership effectiveness and selected dimensions of thinking style among chief student affairs administrators
… effectiveness and selected dimensions of thinking style among chief student affairs administrators in four-year colleges and universities. The initial research sample consisted of 96 randomly selected chief student affairs administrators and selected professional student affairs staff …
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An Investigation of the Relationships between Thinking Style, Participation in Classroom Dialogue and Learning Outcomes – A Study based in Mainland China
… investigated the relationships between thinking style, participation in classroom dialogue and learning outcomes. Classroom dialogue is a commonly used method for teaching and learning, and ways/strategies of taking advantage of classroom dialogue to optimise learning need to be …
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Principal's perceptions of the intuitive teacher
… characteristics are confused with intuition as a thinking style. Therefore, "intuitiveness" should not be used in teacher evaluations. The study also challenges tests that include personality traits and observable behaviours as indicators of thinking style.
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Kesan gaya berfikir dan kemahiran penyelesaian masalah inventif terhadap kemahiran penyelesaian masalah
The Critical and Creative Thinking Skills Model (CCTS) aims to adopt critical and creative thinking skills among students in order to solve problems effectively. However, the majority of teachers have overlooked the importance of this thinking style because of focusing on problem-solving. …
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Working memory and human reasoning : an individual differences approach
… predicted by cognitive ability and a reasoner's thinking style. The correlational anaylsis showed that the complex verbal and spatial working memory span tasks were associated together and consistently predicted reasoning perforinance. Two clusters of reasoning task emerged from the correlational …
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EXPLORING GRAPHICAL DISPLAY EFFECTS IN THE CONTEXT OF PROCESSING AND DECISION-MAKING STYLES
… intuitive decisions. Individual differences in thinking style were also measured. An interaction between display type (foreground-only vs. foreground-background) and processing-stage cognitive load on risk aversion indicated support for a model which explains the foreground-only effect by …
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Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
… to clinical factors, and (4) to determine thinking styles related to aggressive antisocial behavior. Results One percent of the Swedish general population was responsible for 63% of all violent crimes between 1973 and 2004. Risk factors for persistence of aggressive antisocial behavior …
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Thinking Holistically versus Analytically: Exploring the Impact of Culture on Consumers' Cognitive Responses to Ads
… young Chinese consumers may consider using a lifestyle format ad and focusing on portraying the attributes of focal people and objects as well as adding more visual pieces of context information. In contrast, advertising targeting American young consumers can adopt a personalized format, and focus …
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Predicting homeless people's use of outreach service programmes: additional avenues and methodological issues explored
… did not show utility, yet attitude, ‘coping’ thinking style and ethnicity predicted intentions to use services. Lastly, the main aim of Study 4 (Chapter 7) was to test the utility of an efficacy based intervention on the empowerment of homeless people. The intervention showed to increase …
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The relationship between alexithymia and self-harm: a mixed methods investigation
… describing feelings and an externally-orientated thinking style. With rates of self-harm increasing, understanding this complex phenomenon remains a research priority. Method A mixed-methods, convergent design was used. Following a systematic literature review and meta-analysis (Study 1), two …
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Relating leadership, thinking styles, self-concept, motivation and stress management in education
… provided ,information concerning their thinking styles, motivations, and the physical effects of stress. This information was examined to find out how satisfaction-oriented, and how security-oriented the thinking styles of the participants were. Second, the data were analysed to see how …
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Adult age differences in thinking styles and probabilistic reasoning : the effect of natural frequencies
… in the light of dual- process theories of thinking and reasoning, using thinking style measures to investigate whether normative reasoning is indeed most often associated with a tendency to reason analytically, rather than heuristically. The tasks were presented both as probabilities, …
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Alexithymia in a psychiatric population: Stability and relationship with therapeutic outcome
… feelings, as well as an externally oriented thinking style and impoverished fantasy life, which places individuals at risk for various psychopathologies. For psychiatric populations, it represents an obstacle to therapeutic success. Despite extensive research, there is no consensus on the …