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Broumi, Said, Ed. – IGI Global, 2023
Fuzzy sets have experienced multiple expansions since their conception to enhance their capacity to convey complex information. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, image fuzzy sets, q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets, and neutrosophic sets are a few of these extensions. Researchers and academics have acquired a lot of information about their theories and methods…
Descriptors: Theories, Mathematical Logic, Intuition, Decision Making
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Kohn, Art – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a classroom activity featuring a simple stay-switch probability game. Contends that the exercise helps students see the importance of empirically validating beliefs. Includes full instructions for conducting and discussing the exercise. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Intuition
Weaver, Richard L., II; Cotrell, Howard W. – 1985
Intended for teachers and others interested in exploring and cultivating the processes of mental imagery, this annotated bibliography includes citations from scholarly journals, popular magazines, doctoral dissertations, works on learning disabilities, and how-to books. The following topics are included among the entries listed in the paper: (1)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Eidetic Imagery
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Norris, Cynthia J.; Achilles, C. M. – Planning and Changing, 1988
Identifies a new source of leadership style--intuitive leadership. Discusses how an intuitive style may fit into the scheme of education leadership-training; reviews literature on intuitive leadership styles; and suggests procedures by which higher educational personnel can employ and encourage the use of intuition as part of the decision-making…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Creative Thinking
Goldberg, Robert L. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
The first part of the article describes the theoretical background of a library planning model based on the concept of right brain/left brain activities. The second describes the implementation of a short term planning model based on this theory. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
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Gordon, Marshall – Mathematics Teacher, 1991
Counterintuitive moments in the classroom challenge common sense and practice and can be used to help mathematics students appreciate the need to explore, reflect, and reason. Proposed are four examples involving geometry, systems of equations, and matrices as counterintuitive instances. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Geometric Concepts, Intuition
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Dewsbury, Donald A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Urges the inclusion of comparative psychology in the undergraduate curriculum. Defines zoological or comparative psychology as a field that explores the behavior patterns and minds of many animal species and the genesis, control, and consequences of a range of behavioral patterns. Traces the history and development of the discipline. Discusses…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Animals, Behavior Development, Cognitive Processes
Mamchur, Carolyn – 1991
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, developed a way to systematically examine eight basic tendencies toward which different types of people tend to gravitate: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. This booklet examines what these tendencies mean and how people with different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Efficiency
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Avital, Shmuel; Barbeau, Edward J. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1991
Presents 13 examples in which the intuitive approach to solve the problem is often misleading. Presents analysis of these problems for five different sources of misleading intuitive generators: lack of analysis, unbalanced perception, improper analogy, improper generalization, and misuse of symmetry. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Geometric Concepts
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Akenson, James E. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1991
Identifies linkages between social inquiry and artistic thought to show interdisciplinary possibilities for kindergarten through high school social studies instruction. Argues expression through modern dance helps students integrate personal experience and social phenomena. Provides a lesson in which elementary school students choreograph their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development, Dance