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Download full textAMSTER, HARRIETT – 1966
THE GENERAL PROBLEM UNDER INVESTIGATION CONCERNED TWO PROCESSES OF CONCEPT FORMATION - THE DEDUCTIVE REASONING PROCESS AND THE ASSOCIATIVE PROCESS - EMPLOYED BY CHILDREN OF ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL AGE. IT WAS ASSUMED THAT BOTH OF THESE PROCESSES ARE FOUND IN VARYING DEGREES AMONG CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT AGES AND MENTAL ABILITIES, DEPENDING UPON THE…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Green, Donald Ross; Wilder, Nancy E. – 1968
A study was designed to determine if the results of a previous investigation could be duplicated, and if so, whether the observed effect was independent of content. The results of the earlier study had indicated that shifting from one form or "code" of expression to another inhibits a student's ability to express a concept explaining a physical…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Donald, Janet Gail – 1980
The contributions of psychology, theoretically and experimentally, to university teaching are examined from the perspective of educational epistemology. The most basic theoretical contribution that psychology has made to cognitive learning has been the delineation of a unit of thinking, the concept, which acts as an organizer of experience. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Instruction
