Defines bulimia and lists associated features of bulimia, physical side effects, and cognitive disturbances related to binging and purging. Asserts that bulimics resist treatment; but that such methods as cognitive, group, family, behavior, and drug therapy, and hospitalization appear promising. (Author/ABB)

Discusses effects of student and teacher cognitive styles on teacher/learner relationships and on training transactions, suggesting that teachers and students with like cognitive styles interact more successfully and that field-dependent learners, who tend to favor working alone, perform better with self-paced instruction. Instructional design…

Examined development of conditional reasoning from perspective of competence-moderator-performance approach. Effects of task interpretation and cognitive style as moderator variables for conditional reasoning were examined with 8th, 10th and 12th graders. Results indicated that only 12th graders benefit from training and training generalized to…

Three conceptual frameworks for examining the cognitive response to film are reviewed. It is suggested that a phenomenological rather than atomistic conception of the film-viewer interaction will be most useful for the generation of further studies in this area. (Author/RM)

Benefits of a "learning to learn" program of management development are (1) it returns learning to everyday experience, (2) it avoids conceptual explanations of why things happen and helps people understand how they create situations, (3) it accommodates all learning styles, (4) it offers immediate feedback on the job, and (5) it addresses…

The second of two articles defines terms associated with in two contrasting cognitive approaches to promoting problem solving: the visual/spatial, holistic style (terms such as face recognition, impulsive) and the verbal analytic and detail-oriented style (terms such as logical, sequential, and focalized). (CL)

A study of the learning style preferences of preservice education majors at the University of Idaho showed differences between men and women on 8 of 16 variables, between preparing for elementary and secondary school careers on 7 variables, and between students in different subject matter majors on 10 variables. (PGD)

Forty-eight subjects read passages and answered comprehension questions consisting of two information types (text-explicit, text-implicit), lookback conditions (lookback, no-lookback), and questions formats (multiple-choice, free-response). Analyses revealed significant interactions between cognitive style and several reading comprehension test…

Suggests that performance can be improved by discovering how one learns and performs in practice. Outlines a framework for integrating on- and off-the-job development activities, based on Kolb's cycle of problem solving. (SK)

Investigated the relationship between cognitive mode and classroom behavior in 76 elementary school students who took the Adapted Children's Form of Your Style of Learning and Thinking (SOLAT). A significant relationship was found with right hemisphere cognitive mode students scoring higher on nonadaptive classroom behavior measures. (JAC)

Tested male juvenile recidivists (N=68) and nonrecidivists (N=68) to determine the relationship between cognitive defense style, repression, and recidivism. Results cited poor verbal or cognitive mediation as a predictor of delinquency and recidivism and found low threshold for emotionally threatening stimuli to be positively correlated with…

The purpose of this study was to report the use of Kolb's Learning Style Inventory in investigating its effectiveness as a guide to counselors and faculty in dealing with adult learners. Describes the learning styles of adults in nontraditional occupational education programs. (JOW)

Reviews the literature related to studies measuring various cognitive properties in suicidal patients. Provides a structural framework with which to classify the studies and employs the categories of suicidal logic, cognitive style, social cognition, and cognitive control. The methodological issues are discussed. (JAC)

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This is a detailed introduction to the major theories that lie behind children's learning styles. The book examines how to develop learning situations and how to plan and create the best opportunities for effective and lasting learning. After an introduction, six chapters are presented: (1) What Is Learning?; (2) Behaviourist Approaches; (3)…