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De Baets, Shari; Vanderheyden, Karlien – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
We set out to investigate whether interindividual differences in cognition affect the susceptibility to four forecasting biases: (a) optimism bias, (b) adding noise to forecasts, (c) presuming positive autocorrelation when series are independent, and (d) trend damping. All four biases were prevalent in the results, but we found no consistent…
Descriptors: Prediction, Individual Differences, Cognitive Style, Reflection
Caceffo, Ricardo; Valle, Eduardo; Mesquita, Rickson; Azevedo, Rodolfo – European Journal of Physics Education, 2019
According to the Felder and Silverman Learning Styles Model (FSM), students have learning preferences regarding how information is obtained, processed, perceived and understood. The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) is an online questionnaire created by Felder and Soloman to classify students according to their learning styles. With a priori…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Style, Models, Science Achievement
Willingham, Daniel T.; Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Dobolyi, David G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Theories of learning styles suggest that individuals think and learn best in different ways. These are not differences of ability but rather preferences for processing certain types of information or for processing information in certain types of way. If accurate, learning styles theories could have important implications for instruction because…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Theories, Academic Achievement, Individual Differences
Shenhav, Amitai; Rand, David G.; Greene, Joshua D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Some have argued that belief in God is intuitive, a natural (by-)product of the human mind given its cognitive structure and social context. If this is true, the extent to which one believes in God may be influenced by one's more general tendency to rely on intuition versus reflection. Three studies support this hypothesis, linking intuitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Social Environment, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Structures
Federico, Pat-Anthony; Landis, David B. – 1980
The incorporation of computer-managed instruction into an academic program made it necessary to identify those cognitive styles, abilities, and aptitudes which were relevant to the success or failure of trainees in the Navy's Basic Electricity and Electronics (BE/E) School in order to minimize the attrition rate. Measures of 6 styles, 6 abilities,…
Descriptors: Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Aptitude