These are individuals who can meld the best of traditionalism and modernism to create a new synthesis, having a cognitive style based on synthesizing varied information from many sources into a big picture.
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Several other models are also often used when researching cognitive styles; some of these models are described in books that Sternberg co-edited, such as " Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles ".
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Cognitive style is thus claimed to be a single dimension on a scale from extreme left-brain to extreme right-brain types, depending on which associated behaviour dominates in the individual, and by how much.
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Last week, a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that a person's cognitive style early in life is a good predictor of the chances of ending up with Alzheimer's disease.
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"" Pleasant weather ( higher temperature or barometric pressure ) was related to higher mood, better memory, and " broadened " cognitive style during the spring as time spent outside increased.
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Further psychological research has identified individual differences between two cognitive styles : " maximizers " try to make an optimal decision, whereas " satisficers " simply try to find a solution that is " good enough ".
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Recent evidence suggests that it may be the most widely used measure of cognitive style in academic research in the fields of management and education ( Cools, Armstrong and Verbrigghe, 2014; Evans, Cools and Charlesworth, 2010 ).
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Psychologist Janet Surrey, coauthor of the book " We Have to Talk : Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women, " agrees that men and women have different cognitive styles _ and thus differing abilities to compartmentalize feelings from action.
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However in a critique of the " Cognitive Style Index " indicator they opined that progress in the field had been " hampered by a proliferation of alternative constructs and assessment instruments " many unreliable with a lack of agreement over nomenclature.
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Furthermore, he views the dialectic of the poles of " specialness " versus " the ultimate rescuer " as being similar to that of the cognitive styles of field dependence versus field independence and to that of interior versus exterior locus of control.
