Personality and Approaches to Learning

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 588-607

  Furnham, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approach to learning, being about motivation while style of learning (thinking) being about preference; Approaches to Learning (ATL), more agreement seen in cognitive style area and "style" literature, about how different people choose to process material; Approaches, goals and perceptions of students in educational settings motivation changing, functions of reward and approach to studies, changing; ATL literature, and educational contexts integrating this research into wider arena of differential psychology, fully understanding and adopting a particular approach to learning; How people approach their learning task how much time and effort they put into it, and how they go about preparing for exams; Individual differences in how people approach their learning and style they adopt in learning; Intersection of differential and educational psychology two sub disciplines once "happily married," but now seeming "amicably divorced"; Personality and approaches to learning; Personality trait theory, dominated for 30 years by Eysenck Cattell debate about orthogonal, higher order, "Giant Three" and oblique, lower order, comprehensive 16 traits; Presage process product model characteristics of students, as well as their learning context, influencing their perceptions of that context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985870505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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