Year | definition | source | 1985 | "Cognitive style is the term used to describe different ways in which people process information, including perception,
storage, transformation, and utilization of informatiion from the environment. It describes habitual processes of perceiving and
thinking which are qualitatively different." | Entwistle, N. J. (1985, p.810) |
1985 | "There is no universally agreed definition of cognitive style but most researchers have emphasized three features:
styles are intellectual characteristics of individuals;
they describe processes which are relatively stable over time;
and intraindividual stabilities are consistent across tasks having similar requirements." | Slatterly, D J (1985, p.808) |
2008 | "a person's typical ways of thinking, seen as a continuum between field-dependent cognitive style, in which thinking relates to context, and field-independent style, in which it is independent of context" | Cook, Vivian (2008, p.150) |