To understand cognitive style, a definition of cognition must first be understood. Cognition is a collection of mental processes that includes awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. The study of cognitive processes has its roots in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka and in the studies of cognitive development in children by Jean Piaget during the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, Carl Jung published Psychological Types (1923) where he postulated that personality comprised of three facets each with a continuum descriptor. The first facet, attitude, can range from extraversion, those personalities that are outgoing, to introversion, those personalities that are focused inward. The second facet, perception, deals with a person’s method of understanding stimuli