Approaches to learning and the acquisition of general knowledge

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• 作者：Adrian Furnham ; Andrew N. Christopher ; Jeanette Garwood ; G. Neil Martin
• 关键词：Personality ; Lecturers ; Learning approaches ; Academic ; University ; Preferences
• 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：October 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：43
• 期：6
• 页码：1563-1571
• 全文大小：119 K

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Four hundred and thirty students from four universities completed a well-validated general knowledge test (Irwing, Cammock, & Lynn, 2001), a learning styles questionnaire (Biggs, 1987), and a measure of the Big Five personality variables (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Correlational and regressional analysis indicated that over and above age and gender two factors were most predictive of general knowledge and accounted for around a fifth of the variance: a surface learning style and openness to experience. Results are discussed in terms of the aetiology of crystallised intelligence.