Abstract

RAMIRO, Pedro; NAVARRO, José I; MENACHO, Inmaculada  and  AGUILAR, Manuel. Cognitive style. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2010, vol.42, n.2, pp.193-202. ISSN 0120-0534.

Cognitive styles are a stable attitudes, preferences, or habitual strategies that determine individuals' modes of perceiving, remembering, thinking, and problem solving. The impulsivity-reflectivity cognitive style refers preference for making responses quickly versus pausing to decrease the number of errors in problem-solving situations. Relationships between impulsivity-reflectivity and intelligence are still not clear. The aim of this project was to know what impulsivity-reflectivity dimension can be considered more common in gifted children assessed by a standard IQ test. 50 primary and secondary school children were assessed with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-r), the Renzulli Scale for Rating Behavioural Characteristics of Talented and Gifted Students, and the Matching Familiar Figures Test. Results suggest high IQ students (over 130 in WISC-r) were more likely to show a reflectivity cognitive style.

Keywords : cognitive styles; impulsivity-reflectivity; IQ; intelligence; gifted children.

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