Process the most general concept all human beings

� Process: � the most general concept all human beings engage in certain universal processes Style: consistence enduring tendencies or preferences within an individual Strategies: specific methods of approaching a problem for achieving a particular end

� Cognitive style: � The link between personality and cognition � Learning style: � The link between cognition and educational context. It mediates between emotion and cognition

� 1 - Reflexive: � Out � 2 - of reflexive personality Impulsive � Out of impulsive emotional personality

� They way they internalize their environment � Because of that physical, affective and cognitive domains merge in learning styles

� Different contexts evoke different styles

� 1. Field independence-dependence � 2. Random vs sequential � 3. global vs particular � 4. inductive vs deductive � 5. synthetic vs analytic � 6. analogue vs digital � 7. concrete vs abstract � 8. levelling vs sharpening � 9. impulsive vs reflective

� Left-and right-bin styles � Ambiguity tolerance � Visual; auditory/kinesthetic styles

� FI � The ability to perceive a particular relevant tem or factor in a field of distracting items � FD � The tendency to be dependent on the total field so that the parts embedded within the field are not easily percieved

� Enables you to distinguish parts from the whole � FI persons are more independent, competitive and self-confident � Enables you to perceive the whole picture of a problem or idea or event � FD persons are more socialized perceptive of others’ feelings

� Related to analysis - attention to details- mastering of exercising drills and focused activities � Related to communicative aspects of language learning

the answer is both � Depending on the context of learning � � Learners � Teachers invokes the appropriate style understand preferences of styles and be flixable

� Lift-brain � Logical analytic thought mathematical processing of information � Deductive teaching style of � Right brain � Visual auditory images processes holistic Lift-andright-brain dominance emotional information � Inductive teaching style of

� Cognitive well to tolerate ideas that counter your belief system of knowledge � Too see every idea fitting in cognitive organization and rejection of other unfitting ideas

� Quick guess at answers to problem � Inductive methods � Slow calculated decisions � Deductive methods