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Peer reviewedStephens, Jo – Mathematics in School, 1979
A publication is described that contains lists of objectives for various school concepts. Its use is recommended as a means of monitoring student progress. (MP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
Barreto, Aristides Camargos – MATYC Journal, 1979
The necessity of postulates of incidence and order is demonstrated by several examples of models for given axiomatic systems. Interdisciplinary interpretations are given. (MP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts, Instruction, Mathematical Models
Peer reviewedDenney, Douglas R.; Moulton, Patricia A. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
This study attempted to determine whether a shift from complementary to similarity concepts occurred in preschool children prior to the shift from concrete-similarity to abstract-similarity concepts and had been observed among elementary school children. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Munk, Arthur W. – Intellect, 1976
This article developed out of a belief that our great hope of building a peaceful, brilliant world civilization, based upon the best that all the great cultures can offer, lies in the vast potentiality of creative ideas expressed in terms of a sane international policy under the leadership of the world's statesmen. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Eisner, Emanuel – Journal of Business Education, 1977
Graphic examples of the use of the time line in accounting are presented in five problems statements (with comments) in the following areas: Depreciation expense vs. the contra asset, accumulated depreciation; adjusting entries (deferrals, accruals); discounting notes receivable; bond accounting; and compound interest concepts. (TA)
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts
Peer reviewedEbisch, Glen A. – Journal of Thought, 1977
Rousseau's concept of the General Will has been the subject of long-standing scholarly debate. Attempts to understand the General Will as Rousseau's answer to the wider problem in democratic theory as a whole of how self-interests are to be reconciled in a democracy. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Concept Formation, Democracy, Moral Development
Peer reviewedBlankemeyer, Kenneth J. – Journal of Thought, 1977
Evaluates C. L. Stevenson's theory of emotive meaning, an integral part to his general metaethical theory. This theory allows him to explain why ethics cannot be reduced to a branch of science and why ethical disagreements are often not susceptible to solution by empirical or logical means. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedChildress, Ronald B. – Journal of Thought, 1977
This essay represents an attempt to provide a realistic framework through which the curriculum planner might develop a personal definition of curriculum. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Definitions
Carter, Curtis L. – Arts in Society, 1976
Descriptors: Artists, Concept Formation, Dance, Interviews
Peer reviewedMowrer, O. Hobart – Education, 1976
Deals with the pervasive change which has occurred in recent decades in the conception of so-called neurosis and with the resulting modifications in corrective or "therapeutic" measures. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Definitions, Diagrams, Neurosis
Peer reviewedBourne, L. E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1976
The frequency with which values on any stimulus dimension occur within the positive (and/or negative) category of a concept is a potential cue to which dimensions are relevant. Seven experiments, using a two-stimulus (one positive and one negative) simultaneous presentation paradigm, designed to explore frequency effects systematically, are…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Evaluation Criteria, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Peer reviewedMorton, John; And Others – Psychological Review, 1976
Words presented with regular acoustic onsets are not "perceptually" regular. The requirements for perceived regularity were investigated, and the "perceptual center" (P-center) of a word was defined as its psychological moment of occurrence. (Editor)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Charts, Concept Formation, Definitions
Peer reviewedMelkman, Rachel; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The preference for color or form as bases for similarity judgments among preschoolers (ages 2-5) and its relationship to the differentiation of form and color concepts as indexed by discrimination, identification, and labeling were investigated. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedStrauss, Sidney; Kroy, Moshe – Human Development, 1977
Piaget's conceptualization of concrete and formal operations is presented. It is contended that Piaget has obfuscated logic, metaphysics and methodology. (MS)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedTownsend, Michael A. R.; Keeling, Brian – Journal of Educational Research, 1977
This study used a series of analogy problems to test children's associative and conceptual abilities and showed that children with stronger associative abilities do not rely excessively on associative strategies. (MM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Association Measures, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation


