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Peer reviewedButter, Eliot J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Children were individually administered the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) Test and the Haptic Matching Task. Impulsives received either reflective scanning strategy training or control procedures and were retested. Visual training decreased errors only on the MFF and increased latency on both tasks. Haptic training decreased errors and increased…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedJones, Anne Elizabeth – Educational Psychology, 1997
Considers the theoretical validity of two approaches to cognitive style. Wholist-Analytic maintains that cognitive processes depend on the interaction of two opposing forces, destructive and constructive. Reflection-Impulsivity characterizes learners according to their reflective or impulsive responses to solution hypotheses. Evaluates these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo


