Thinking styles
By: Robert J. Sternberg.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Subjects: Cognitive styles; Thought and thinking; Human information processing
Notes: Includes bibliograhical references (p. 161-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The nature of thinking styles; title: What are thinking styles and why do we need them?; title: Functions of thinking styles : the legislative, executive, and judicial styles; title: Forms of thinking styles : the monarchic, hierarchic, oligarchic, and anarchic styles; title: Levels, scope, and leanings of thinking styles : the global, local, internal, external, liberal, and conservative styles; title: pt. 2. The principles and development of thinking styles; title: The principles of thinking styles; title: The development of thinking styles; title: pt. 3. Thinking styles in school and in research and theory; title: Thinking styles in the classroom : what have we learned?; title: A capsule history of theory and research on styles; title: Why a theory of mental self-government?