Topic > Learning Style and Learning Styles - 851

One of the most well-known concepts in learning styles is that of learning modes (a combination of perception and memory). This theory suggests that all students preferred ways of receiving and storing information through different sensory modalities: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (BECTA, 2005). Some examples of style dimensions are as follows: Field Dependent-Field Independent (Witkin & Asch, 1948a, 1948b); Impulsivity-Reflexivity (Kagan, 1965), Wholists-Analyst and Verbal-Imager (Riding 2001?). Riding and Rayner (1998) commented that cognitive style is an individual's preferred and habitual approach to organizing and representing information, which subsequently influences how one perceives and responds to events and ideas (Pitta-Pantazi & Christou , 2008). Sternberg and Grigorenko's definition of cognitive style is as follows: “a bridge between what might appear to be two quite distinct areas of psychological development”