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Is Your Learning Style Paranoid?

psychology Today online (2015)

Kirby Farrell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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Abstract

We learn—and grow—by engaging with anomalies: new things that don't fit our familiar categories. It's a gut process, not just a philosophical choice. Anxiety can make us paranoid about what's new and strange. Knowing that can spur fascination and help us to adapt.

Keywords

evolution,
cognitive processing,
learning,
clinical psychology,
cultural anthropology,
prejudice,
tacit thinking,
psychosomatic experience

Disciplines

Anthropology,
Behavior and Ethology,
Biodiversity,
Clinical Psychology,
Cognition and Perception,
Evolution,
Genetics,
Personality and Social Contexts and
Theory and Philosophy

Publication Date

Summer September 18, 2015

Publisher Statement

From Psychology Today online, "Aswim in Denial"

Citation Information

Kirby Farrell. "Is Your Learning Style Paranoid?" psychology Today online (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kirby_farrell1/25/