The ability of some individuals to understand self-embedded sentences, which occur when a sentence is placed within another sentence of a similar type by means of a relative clause, is shown to be related to their ability to reason with the use of the syllogistic form. (Author/KM)

Rebellion against intellectualism has been caused by the lack of reason in intellectual pursuits. (HS)

In order for students to fully develop their intellect, they must be exposed to the finest professors and the most demanding disciplines. (HS)

Judgements based on several categories of responses supported the hypothesis that college males show significantly more abstract shifting to concrete responses. College females were found to make significantly more abstract-ending responses when all categories of responses were dichotomized as either abstract-ending or concrete-ending. (Author)

Bacon's views of the faculties of understanding and reason are presented and explained in reference to Baconian rhetoric. Understanding, Rhetoric, Insinuative and Imaginative Reason are defined. (Author/MS)

Modes of cognition are postulated consisting of third- and fourth-order operations; these are hypothesized to be qualitatively different from, and hierarchically related to, the form of reasoning characterized as formal operational by Inhelder and Piaget. An instrument was developed to assess these modes of cognition. (RH)