Mohd Haneef Kumar
Research Scholar
Department of Educational Studies
Central University of Jammu, Jammu
J N Baliya
Assistant professor
Department of Educational Studies
Central University of Jammu, Jammu
Abstract
Cognitive styles are the ways in which a person comprehend, understand, analyses and interpret the world. It is a word used in cognitive psychology to refer to the manner human beings think, perceive, organize, solve problems, make decisions and remember information or their preferred approach to using such information to solve problems. It has nothing to do with intelligence but it influences a person’s learning a lot. Cognitive styles become important when individual face new, unfamiliar tasks and situations. students who lacked awareness of their learning or cognitive style were the least successful, than those who were aware, people who involve in a learning situation matching with their cognitive style do better, therefore trying to impose a learning style not similar with the cognition is the pedagogic equivalent of imposing a false self upon someone, an act which is totally unhelpful and damaging and will become a cause of stress among individuals. So far the present study is concerned the investigator compared the cognitive styles of college students studying in Govt. degree colleges of Jammu division with respect to gender and locality. The sample was selected by multistage randomized technique which includes 1000 college students of Jammu division. For data collection the researcher has used a standardized tool named cognitive style inventory established by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha. Results revealed no significant differences in systematic, intuitive, integrated, undifferentiated and split cognitive styles among college students with respect to gender and locality. The findings of the study have lot of educational implications for college teachers.
Key words: Systematic Style, Intuitive Style, Integrated Style, Undifferentiated Style And Split Styl.
