LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Auditory Learning, Simulation For Automatic Machinery, Behaviorism
15 Jan 2016
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Lecture 6: learning styles and strategies (chapter 5?) Brown talks about styles and strategies under the heading individual differences . Note the difference between the two concepts in the chapter. Styles are general characteristics of intellectual functioning they are consistent and rather enduring tendencies or preferences within an individual. They are specific methods of approaching a problem/task, techniques for achieving a particular end, or designs for controlling and manipulating certain info. Because they are contextualized battle plans that might vary from moment to moment or from oen context to another or from one culture to another, they vary within an individual. Each of us has a number of possible options for solving a particular problem; from which we choose a particular line of attack. Brown examines several learning styles which may be important in sla. Field independence: ability to perceive relevant items in a field of distracting items.
