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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"cognitive styles"”.
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Supervisors' and trainees' cognitive styles and the supervision process
This study replicated and extended some aspects of a project done by Handley (1980). The primary purpose of this study was to test whether satisfaction with the counseling supervisory relationship was related to the degree of personality similarity between counselor trainees and their supervisors. …
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Cognitive Styles, Working Styles on Computers and Second Language Learning
… this study observed relationships among the cognitive styles of Reflection/Impulsivity (R/I) and Field Independence (FI), working styles on computerized language lessons (interaction rate and errors, editing and listening), and second language (L2) learning.
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Cognitive Styles and Measured Occupational Preferences of College Freshmen and Sophomores
… freshmen and sophomore students, between the cognitive style measures field independence/dependence, "preference for structure," Harvey's Cognitive Style Factors--and occupational factors measure by the UNIACT Interest Inventory.</p> <p>Method. Four paper and pencil tests measuring three …
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A study of the cognitive styles and learning preferences of Fire Service officers
This research examines the relationship between Cognitive Style and Learning Styles of senior officers in the Fire Service and their preferences for different training delivery methods. Data has been gathered from students attending courses at the Fire Service College, in particular those attending …
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Relationship between dissimilar cognitive styles, use of coping behavior and use of learning strategies
Research on teacher learning styles and teaching styles have explained that teachers inadvertently mirror their own styles as they teach (Sternberg, 1994; Zhang, 2002) and as such apply teaching strategies that fit personal preference. With this one-style-fits-all approach, students’ individual …
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The Effects of Highlight Color on Immediate Recall in Subjects of Different Cognitive Styles
… how color impacts learners of different cognitive style and in particular how color influences field dependency. Learners predisposed to field-dependence continually demonstrate a lower capacity than field-independent learners in terms of performance tasks where organizing or …
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Effects of Field Dependent-Independent Cognitive Styles and Cueing Strategies on Students' Recall and Comprehension
… differed in their field dependent-independent cognitive style orientations. Two hundred thirty-eight undergraduate students of Virginia Tech participated the study, and 219 sets of valid data were used for the statistical analyses. All participants were given the Group Embedded Figures Test to …
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The Effect Of Cognitive Styles Upon The Completion Of A Visually-oriented Component Of Online Instruction
… to examine whether a person's prepositioned cognitive style influenced learning achievement in a visually-oriented task for an online learning environment in higher education. Field dependence-independence was used to identify individuals' cognitive styles. A true experimental study was …
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An Empirical Study of the Educational Cognitive Styles of Plato Groups vs. Traditional Groups Studying College Chemistry
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Effects of imposed visuals and instructions to image on immediate recall in students of varying ages and cognitive styles
… Embedded Figures Test was used to determine cognitive style. Within each grade level, an equal number of students classified as field dependent, neutral and field independent were randomly assigned to three treatment groups. The dependent measure of memory was a written test of immediate …
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Biases in Children's Cognitive Styles: Investigating Local, Global, and Rule-Based Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typical Development
… many attempts have been made to explain the cognitive profiles of children and adults with ASD. Three prominent theories, Weak Central Coherence (Frith, 1989), Systemizing (Baron-Cohen, 2002), and Executive Dysfunction Theory (Pennington & Ozonoff, 1996), may together provide a plausible …
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Relationships between cognitive styles and written composition of African American ninth grade students in a metropolitan school district in Western Michigan /
… investigate the relationships that exist between cognitive styles, and written composition. The procedure included testing 200 ninth grade students in six high schools in a metropolitan school district in western Michigan, with the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). The median for the GEFT scores …
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A Study on Environmental Dynamism, Entrepreneur Cognitive Styles, Learning from Failure and Attitude Towards Risk in Emerging Economy. A Case Study of Nigeria Entrepreneurs
… overall outlook country. However, the role of cognitive thinking styles, and in particular how this affects their ability to learn from failure, remain limited within a developing economy context. Thus, the current research aims to examine the relationship between environmental dynamism as the …
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Effects of prior spatial experience, gender, 3d solid computer modelling and different cognitive styles on spatial visualisation skills of graphic design students at a rural-based South African university
… (3D) solid modelling as well as different cognitive styles on the spatial visualisation skills has little to no evidence, especially in graphics design students at rural–universities. Additionally, graphics design students often struggle to understand, process and convert multi-faceted …
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An Investigation of Eating Disorder Neurocognitive and Behavioural Endophenotypes in Twins
Background: Cognitive styles, emotional processing and behavioural traits are involved in the aetiology and maintenance of eating disorders. Some of these traits are present post recovery and in first-degree relatives suggesting that they may be endophenotypes. Aims: The aim of this study was to …
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Unpacking Parental Accommodation: Relationship to Parent Distress Tolerance and Parent-Child Co-rumination
… relates to parent distress tolerance and cognitive styles. The present study utilized data from 295 parents (289 female) of children ages 4-10 who were recruited for a randomized trial of an internet-based single-session intervention targeting parent accommodation (NCT04453865). Results …
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DONT' BE FOOLED BY FAKE NEWS? MAPPING THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF MISINFORMATION BELIEF.
… to identify specific individual mechanisms, e.g. cognitive styles, without considering the possible interplay of various mechanisms. Instead, this dissertation has jointly considered five drivers of misinformation beliefs: cognitive styles, motivated reasoning, anti-elitism, institutional trust, …
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Design and implementation of a user-adaptive website with information palettes
… been shown that different people have different cognitive styles, or preferred ways in which they think, perceive information, and solve problems. Each cognitive style desires a certain type of information presented in a certain way. In this thesis, I design and implement a framework for creating …
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Forms of disciplinary fragmentation: Holistic healthcare and the categorical division of academic labor
… Anthony Biglan, postulated the existence of cognitive styles drawn along these lines. Conceiving disciplinary fragmentation as the theoretical splitting of cognitive styles into these categories, the dissertation asks what would consolidate the styles and how could they pose unforeseen …
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