Discusses how two teacher functions can be used to guide science discovery learning and enhance concept formation in the preschool: (1) nurturing children's curiosity, and (2) providing active learning experiences that extend and clarify common events in the lives of young children. (CS)

Article presents an adaptive instructional model for concept teaching which incorporates the humanistic idea of self-learning. (Author)

Article provided a well-known example of creative invention, that of the hovercraft, which served well as a highlight of the problems facing the student of creativity. (Author/RK)

Based on an M.A. thesis (Snow) submitted to McGill University.

Responses to Piagetian-type stories were gathered from seven Appalachian children ranging in age from 7-14 years. Their responses were examined in two ways: (1) individually, in order to see whether each child's sense of justice had evolved in accord with the age findings of Piaget; and (2) collectively, in order to determine similarities and…

TWO HYPOTHESES RELATED TO HYPOTHESIS INTERFERENCE IN CONCEPT PERFORMANCE OF YOUNG CHILDREN WERE TESTED/ (1) STUDENTS MAKE MORE CLASSIFICATIONS WHEN STIMULUS OBJECTS ARE PRESENTED SEQUENTIALLY THAN WHEN STIMULUS OBJECTS ARE PRESENTED SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND (2) REDUCING THE NUMBER OF STIMULUS OBJECTS INCREASES CLASSIFICATION SPEED. MATCHED ON THE BASIS…

THIS PAPER DISCUSSES EMPATHY AS THE CONCEPT HAS DEVELOPED PHILOSOPHICALLY, AS IT IS USED IN THE ARTS, AND AS IT DIFFERS FROM SYMPATHY. EMPATHY IS DEFINED AS A TWO-DIRECTIONAL PROCESS INVOLVING THE OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED. THE ETHICAL CONCEPT IS DEFINED AS AN EMOTIONAL "FEELING INTO," EXTENSION, OR INVESTMENT OF THE SELF ON THE PART OF…

WRITTEN TO PROVIDE AN EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RELEVANT RESOURCE MATERIALS, THIS BROCHURE ALSO DEFINES TEAM TEACHING AND OUTLINES ITS CONCEPTS, STAFF UTILIZATION, EVALUATION, AND YET UNSOLVED PROBLEMS. BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL DATES FROM 1958 TO 1964, INCLUSIVELY. (BR)

To test the hypotheses that gifted Ss will be better able to supply missing conclusions to conditional syllogisms as a factor of maturation and that the hierarchy of difficulty in supplying conclusions will be from affirming the antecedent and denying the consequent, to linear transitivity to nonlinear transitivity, and finally to conditional…

IN DEMONSTRATING THE FACILITATIVE EFFECT OF AVAILABLE PAST INSTANCES IN CONCEPT LEARNING, IT WAS PREDICTED THAT AVAILABILITY WOULD BE FACILITATED WHEN SUBJECTS WERE PROVIDED WITH A CORRECT RECORD (CR) OF CLASSIFICATION. IT WAS ALSO PREDICTED THAT SUBJECTS MORE CAPABLE OF RECALLING THE CORRECT CLASSIFICATION OF PAST INSTANCES WOULD PROFIT LESS FROM…

In order to have more utility as constructs, international and intercultural communication must be redefined and interrelated. International communication is any symbolic interaction among people of different nation states. This definition rules out all communication which does not pass across national boundaries, but includes all social messages…

The aims of this study were: (1) to specify who the infant-mother relationship evolves, and (2) to demonstrate how the development of object concept affects the evolution of that relationship. Subjects were 19 male and 17 female Caucasian infants from 4 to 12 months of age. The development of an interpersonal relationship was assessed through the…