Three Facets of Visual and Verbal Learners: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, and Learning Preference.

Mayer, Richard E.; Massa, Laura J.

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ERIC Number: EJ678602

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Three Facets of Visual and Verbal Learners: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, and Learning Preference.

Mayer, Richard E.; Massa, Laura J.

Journal of Educational Psychology, v95 n4 p833-46 Dec 2003

Examines the hypothesis that some people are verbal learners and some people are visual learners. Presented a battery of 14 cognitive measures related to the visualizer-verbalizer dimension to 95 college students and then conducted correlational and factor analyses. Results have implications for how to conceptualize and measure individual differences in the visualizer-verbalizer dimension and cognitive style in general. (Contains 20 references, 5 tables, and 1 appendix.) (GCP)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Learning Theories, Multiple Intelligences, Verbal Learning, Visual Learning

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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