1. Cognitive Processes in Teaching and Learning

2. Cultural Emphasis on Thought Processes
English
Semitic
Oriental
Romance

3. Cultural Emphasis on Cognitive Processes
Psychical Experience
Psychical Experience
Concepts
Concrete Relationships
Concrete Relationships
Concepts
West
China
Source: David Hesselgrave, Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally, p. 303

6. Hemisphericity and Learning
Left Hemisphere
Right Hemisphere
Verbal
Non-verbal
Analytic
Synthetic
Symbolic
Concrete
Abstract
Analogic
Temporal
Non-temporal
Rational
Non-rational
Digital
Spatial
Logical
Intuitive
Linear
Holistic
Logical-Analytic
Gestalt-Synthetic
Verbal knowledge and usage
Pragmatic and semantic processing
Decoding and producing speech
Spatial exploration & orientation
Naming and codifying
Visual-constructive tasks (copying designs;
visual memory)
Classifying and categorizing
Visual closure or gestalt completion
Programming rapid motor sequences
Artistic and aesthetic comprehension
Time-oriented stimulus sequencing
Simultaneous, configurational stimulus
processing (enables face recognition,
melodic and chord processing aspects
of music)

7. Map of Brain Cognitive Tasks
Perception/Reception:
Thinking:
Modality Preference:
Kinesthetic vs Visual vs Auditory
Classification:
Serial vs. Holistic
Pattern recognition:
Analytic vs Holistic
Analogical Reasoning:
Response
Stimulus
Tight vs Loose
Frame of Reference:
Global vs Articulated
Judgment:
Actuarial vs Intuitive
Attention:
Extensive/Intensive
vs Limited/Diffuse
Memory:
Thought Memory:
Body Memory:
Representation:
Proprioceptive
Analytic vs Analog
(muscular sensation)
Tactile
Organization:
Auditory
Conceptual Complexity
Gustatory
Olfactory
Retrieval:
Visual
Convergent vs. Divergent