The views of Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, and Susanne Langer were discussed. In this article they served as five important figures in a historical account of the concept of the aesthetic as the immediately sensuous. (Author/RK)

The author, an astronaut who has visited the moon, focused on the nature of consciousness and the relationship of mind to body that underlies human potential. (Author/RK)

Author talked about his early educational experiences and how he conceived of art processes. (RK)

Article investigated the extent it is both possible and desirable to instruct others in moral judgment. (Editor/RK)

Psychological research indicates that rote learning involves a good deal of what is commonly called conceptualizing, and conceptual learning demands a large amount of what is often considered rote repetition. (HMD)

Age, verbal intelligence, and scores on the Primary Mental Abilities Space Test correlated with various aspects of the understanding of the right-left concept. (Author/RB)

Discusses experiments testing the adequacy of the common attribute-value representation for knowledge about concepts. (AM)

The ability to make relational discriminations, i.e., to solve problems by responding to the relationships between cues rather than to the absolute properties of individual cues, is examined. The laboratory analogy of this type of problem is referred to as a conditional discrimination problem. Mr. Grogg empirically demonstrates the difference…

The study undertakes to clarify and redefine some of the concepts underlying the relations between visual perception and thinking. A sample bibliography suggests sources for future research. Psychological and psysiological theory is shown historically to have separated the two mental functions in principle. Correspondingly, present-day education,…

The development of concept usage was studied in 120 normal, mildly retarded, and moderately retarded children. A forced-choice match-to-standard task was used, with the equivalence matches compared with the Ss' explanations of their choices. Among the findings were that performance was related to the stimulus condition (competing versus…

A tri-level structure of cognitive operations in concept learning is proposed, based on results of controlled experimentation and factor analytic studies. Global strategies in concept attainment are hypothesized to consist of three phases: attending to the situation, searching for information, and processing and using the information. Further,…

Reading is defined operationally as the cognitive process of perceiving and ordering our environment. As such it is a psychomotor process involving the reorganization of experiences evoked by some stimulus. Thus defined, reading is equated with perception and has several primary functions, including concept building, which begins with perception…

Three studies were conducted to assess the abstraction processes involved in the development of the ability to associate numerals with sets of the appropriate size (numeration). Experiment 1 examined the sequence of the ability to discriminate relative numerical magnitude, numerical equivalence, Arabic numerals, absolute size of a set, and…

This paper is a refinement of a model of conceptual learning and development presented initially as the Presidential Address to Division 15, Educational Psychology, of the American Psychological Association in September 1971 at Washington, D.C. Thus it supersedes the initial formulation in explicitness and detail. This paper explains the nature of…

This report describes two systems designed to improve teaching competencies and to develop higher level thinking abilities, and presents the evaluation design, statistical results, and a brief history of the major events which occurred during development. The McCollum-Davis Model is designed to develop understanding of and skill in relating a…