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Styles of Thinking and Creativity
Gifted International, 1986In this chapter the authors review and synthesize literature in the areas of creativity, learning styles, brain studies, teaching technologies, learning strategies, and evaluation. Our position on the topic of thinking styles and creativity is a holistic one. While learning styles and strategies may differ from person to person, creativity is maximized
E. P. Torrance, Z. L. Rockenstein
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ARE PARENTS' AND CHILDREN'S THINKING STYLES RELATED?
Psychological Reports, 2003This study extends the investigation of the validity of Sternberg's theory of mental self-government to mainland Chinese secondary school students and their parents. The assumption of a ‘socialization effect’ underlying the theory was subjected to broader investigation. 232 students and their parents responded to a range of demographic questions and to
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Teachers' Styles of Thinking: An Exploratory Study
The Journal of Psychology, 2008The primary objective of this study was to explore whether teachers' teaching styles were consistent with their thinking styles. Participants were 194 (85 male, 109 female) high school and university teachers from Shanghai, China, who responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised (R. J. Sternberg, R. K. Wagner, & L. F.
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Thinking styles and the gifted
Roeper Review, 1993This article considers the interaction between styles of thinking and giftedness. In particular, it is argued that decisions regarding identification, instruction and programming need to take into account not only the abilities of the gifted, but their styles of thinking.
Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko
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Imagery as a Style of Thinking
Art Therapy, 1984This article reflects the author's efforts to synthesize image formation and its relationship to development and role in learning. References include material on the creative process with a specific focus on “image formation as a style of thinking and learning.”Read (1960) and Horowitz (1970) are discussed at length—the former for his interest in art ...
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Science and Education, 1993
It is a main contention of this paper that the history of science is not so much a story of the progressive advance in our understanding and discovery of ‘the facts of nature’, but rather, an account of different ways of ‘seeing’ things; where ‘the things’ thus seen are to a considerable extent themselves the result of ‘realizational’ processes ...
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It is a main contention of this paper that the history of science is not so much a story of the progressive advance in our understanding and discovery of ‘the facts of nature’, but rather, an account of different ways of ‘seeing’ things; where ‘the things’ thus seen are to a considerable extent themselves the result of ‘realizational’ processes ...
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Thinking styles and performance.
Journal Clinical Psychiatry and Cognitive Psychology, 2017Cognitive style is widely recognized as an important determinant of individual behavior in the psychology literature and has been conceptualized as a "high-order heuristic that individuals employ when they approach, frame, and solve problems". However, there is conflicting evidence in the literature as to the ways in which cognitive styles facilitates ...
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Personality and Individual Differences, 2009
The primary objective of this study was to examine the predictive power of thinking styles for anxiety. Three hundred and seventy-eight university students from mainland China responded to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II.
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The primary objective of this study was to examine the predictive power of thinking styles for anxiety. Three hundred and seventy-eight university students from mainland China responded to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II.
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New Blackfriars, 1995
Science as we know it today has a long history stretching back to the Greeks and the Babylonians. It is essentially the results of our continuing attempts to understand the natural world, and as such it is conditioned by our culture, by our beliefs concerning what is important and what is not about the nature and purpose of knowledge, and about the ...
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Science as we know it today has a long history stretching back to the Greeks and the Babylonians. It is essentially the results of our continuing attempts to understand the natural world, and as such it is conditioned by our culture, by our beliefs concerning what is important and what is not about the nature and purpose of knowledge, and about the ...
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