The difference between cognitive controls and cognitive styl

[James Trotta]

This is an excerpt from a paper I'll be presenting in October. It regards the difference between cognitive controls and cognitive styles. The more I read it, the more confusing it seems. Can someone help me state (very simply) the difference between cognitive controls and cognitive styles?

Excerpt from paper:

Ellis (1994 p.696) calls cognitive styles, and therefore FI/FD, "characteristic ways of perceiving phenomena, conceptualizing, and recalling information". Manghubhai (2002) defines cognitive controls as "influencing and controlling an individual's perception..." (p.6.3). Cognitive styles are seen as "perceptual habits" (p.6.3) or the way one "processes information" (p.6.6). The distinction made by Manghubhai is that cognitive controls influence or control perception while cognitive styles reflect how that "perception habitually occurs" (B. Muller, personal communication, January, 28, 2003).

FI/FD, which "refers to whether people tend to rely on internal or external referents as they perceive and process information..." (Chapelle p.159) seems to fit Ellis' broad definition nicely. However, FI/FD are cognitive controls because a reliance on either "internal or external referents" (Chapelle p.159) will influence and control an individual's perception, which is Manghubhai's (2002 p.6.3) definition of cognitive control.