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Peer reviewedEdwards, Darrel – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1972
Results indicate that training in semantic awareness increased problem-solving ability for both analytic and synthetic problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Deduction, Generalization, Induction, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedJohnson, Andrea; Moore, Julie A. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1994
Presents a writing assignment from a class in general semantics in which students write about a personal application of general semantics. Presents a paper submitted by one student. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Problem Solving, Semantics, Student Writing Models
Peer reviewedMenefee, Emory – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1987
Discusses critical thinking as the process of moving fluently among abstraction levels. Defines three components involved in fluency of movement: (1) knowledge, or an awareness of the existence of abstraction levels; (2) payoff, or the reason for acquiring fluency; and (3) timing, or a consciousness of abstraction levels at a given time and place.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
