ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an understanding of how people learn. It also explains that individuals have a styles profile and not just one single cognitive style available to them and that is possible to identify families of styles at different levels of information processing. In defining styles, education literature tends to focus on what people do when they are trying to learn: 'Styles do not describe what people are like: they describe what they do when they are trying to learn'. So cognitive style can be described as individual differences in cognitive functioning that develop a result of an individual's adaptation to external physical and socio-cultural environment. One early attempt to differentiate between cognitive style, learning style, and approaches to learning of Curry's influential onion model. Whereby cognitive personality style was seen as innermost layer, with middle layer representing information processing and an outer layer comprising approaches to learning based on stability of style and the relative influence of external environment.
