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A Cognitive Procedure for Representation Change in Verbal Insight Problems
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Patrick, John; Ahmed, Afia; Smy, Victoria; Seeby, Helen; Sambrooks, Katie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The aim of this study was to develop a novel cognitive procedure for operationalizing how the re-encoding and constraint relaxation, suggested by representational change theory (RCT) (Ohlsson, 1992, 2011), can effect representational change in verbal insight problem solving, thus circumventing the constraints imposed by past experience. Some…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Problem Solving, Cues, Cognitive Processes
Learning Styles Preferences of Statistics Students: A Study in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the UAE University
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Yousef, Darwish Abdulrahman – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: Although there are many studies addressing the learning styles of business students as well as students of other disciplines, there are few studies which address the learning style preferences of statistics students. The purpose of this study is to explore the learning style preferences of statistics students at a United Arab Emirates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Cognitive Style
A Test of the Teaching-Learning Style Mesh Hypothesis in a Chinese MBA
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Andres, Hayward P.; Akan, Obasi H. – Journal of International Education in Business, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine if "fit" and "non-fit" between authoritarian versus demonstrator teaching and visual versus verbal learning preferences differ in impact on Chinese MBA student academic performance in a large local urban Chinese university setting. In addition, the role of Chinese cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Graduate Students, Masters Degrees
Visual Attention Modulates Insight versus Analytic Solving of Verbal Problems
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Wegbreit, Ezra; Suzuki, Satoru; Grabowecky, Marcia; Kounios, John; Beeman, Mark – Journal of Problem Solving, 2012
Behavioral and neuroimaging findings indicate that distinct cognitive and neural processes underlie solving problems with sudden insight. Moreover, people with less focused attention sometimes perform better on tests of insight and creative problem solving. However, it remains unclear whether different states of attention, within individuals,…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Problem Solving, Visual Learning, Attention
Generational Perspective of Higher Education Online Student Learning Styles
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Williams, Chad James – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students associated with a generational group exhibit similar learning styles as identified by the Felder and Soloman Index of Learning Styles instrument. The secondary purpose was to determine to what degree these generational groups rate their satisfaction with online education through the use…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Generational Differences, Electronic Learning
Reducing Retroactive Interference through the Use of Different Encoding Techniques: An Exploration of Pre-Test/Post-Test Analyses
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Cumming, John M.; De Miranda, Michael A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Retroactive interference (RI) in list learning occurs when the learning of a second list of words interferes with the recall of the first learned list. Having the lists be thematically different can reduce retroactive interference within list learning; however, this study demonstrates how RI can be reduced when the lists contain similar words.…
Descriptors: Memory, Word Lists, Interference (Learning), Cognitive Processes