Abstract

PITTA, Karina Brunini; SANTOS, Ligia Angeli Dias dos; ESCHER, Carolina de Aragão  and  BARIANI, Isabel Cristina Dib. Cognitive styles of psychology college students: impact of scientific initiation. Psicol. esc. educ. [online]. 2000, vol.4, n.2, pp. 41-49. ISSN 1413-8557.

This study intended to veriry if Scientific lnitiation experience can cause impact in the Cognitive Styles of undergraduates. The subjects were eight female psychology students, who were submitted to a scale and interviews. The data was analysed qualitative and quantitatively. The results were: there is not a Cognitive Style predominance depending on the area and types of research, everybody presented Divergence Thinking and the majority is Reflexive, most subjects agree with the Style showed, and considering positives the ones that were modified. The variables detached as responsible for the changes were: own teacher, activities and work group. It is possible to say that Scientific lnitiation is one factor that can affect Cognitive developrnent of students.

Keywords : Undergraduates Students; Cognitive Styles; Scientific lnitialion.