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Article: Cognitive style in adolescent competitive athletes as a function of culture and gender.
- Article from:
- Journal of Sport Behavior
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
- Author:
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Cognitive style consists of psychological, emotional, physiological, and behavioral dispositional characteristics that reflect an individual's perceptions and interactions with, and responses to, the present environment. Because cognitive style often reflects individual differences in a learning situation, some researchers (e.g., Cawley, Miller, & Milligan, 1976; Schmeck, 1988) refer to this concept as learning style or perceptual style (MacGillivary, 1981; Pargman, 1993; Petrie, 1960).
Individual preferences for processing information represent cognitive approaches to resolve problems or interact with the environment to foster successful outcomes. For example, some ...