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McCarrell, Nancy S.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 1995
Two studies explored preschool children's beliefs about the relationship between perceptually based similarity among things and their predicted behaviors by focusing on form-function correspondences. Perceptual similarity, if motivated by intuitive beliefs about correspondences between form and function was found to be sufficient basis for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Inferences, Intuition
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Nasca, Donald – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
Communication with staff can be improved if the variability in information processing preferences is accommodated. Communication based on cognitive style can increase the probability of follow-through while reducing misunderstanding and potential conflict. The Jungian definition of cognitive style is most widely used; the Myers Briggs Type…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Hausler, Joel; Sanders, John W.; Young, Barbara – Online Submission, 2007
We examined the relationship between learning styles and student type. This research seeks to examine if online students exhibit different learning styles from onsite students; and, if so, what accommodations relating to learning style differences may be made for online students? Students (N = 80) were asked to complete an online survey in order…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Student Characteristics
Mamchur, Carolyn – 1991
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, developed a way to systematically examine eight basic tendencies toward which different types of people tend to gravitate: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. This booklet examines what these tendencies mean and how people with different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Efficiency