Jerome Kagen, who developed instruments to measure and classify the aspect of man's psychological make-up known as conceptual tempo, generated 3 conceptual tempos: reflective, impulsive, and neutral. These tempos are determined by measuring latency time (time lapse) from stimulus to first response and recording the number of errors made. In this…

Reported are the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study to determine the effects of available instances on the relationship of memory abilities to performance in a concept learning task. Subjects were 60 undergraduates from introductory educational psychology courses. Tests of six memory abilities were administered to subjects prior to…

This report analyzes the nonverbal performance of 100 children (3 1/2-4 1/2 year old) on tasks of discontinuous quantity. The children are part of a larger group of subjects participating in a longitudinal study of educational and social programs for disadvantaged children currently being conducted by the Educational Testing Service. The purposes…

This conceptual work is concerned with the development of a holistic theory of personality. The following were selected for their strong orientation in this direction: Gordon Allport, Andras Angyal, Kurt Goldstein, Prescott Lecky, Abraham Maslow, Bardner Murphy, and Carl Rogers. The four themes which emerged from an analysis of their writings are…

The paper identifies some major issues in assessing creative problem solving. Four main problems are discussed: (1) no single widely accepted theory of creativity exists; (2) there is a lack of understanding of the implications of the differences in assessment procedures; (3) researchers, on the one hand, view creativity as entirely a cognitive…

GRADES OR AGES: Four-, five-, and six-year olds. SUBJECT MATTER: Cognitive areas of symbolism, classification, conservation, seriation, spatial relationship, and temporal relationships. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six sections, one for each of the above cognitive areas. Each section lists materials and describes…

Some 180 kindergarten children from low income families were tested midway through the school year on an instructional concepts inventory created by the Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (SRL). The inventory was designed to measure the basic concepts known by a child. It is specifically geared to test…

Three units of instruction were given to 20 four-year-old children and 34 five-year-old children. Unit I was designed to develop the children's ability to establish a length relation between curved lines; Unit II, to develop ability to conserve length; and Unit III, to develop ability to conserve length relations. Testing of the children occurred…

A method is presented which provides for increased subject involvement in the research design along with greater protection of the subjects' rights of privacy. An experimental analysis revealed that with increased motivation subjects took longer to complete the questionnaire; obtained higher, and less socially desirable, Dogmatism scores; and were…

Theories and practices concerned with cognitive functioning and development and its possible relationship to reading and reading instruction are reviewed. The nature of the strategies involved in reading and thinking are similar. Increase in task complexity for reading most likely involves cognitive functioning that ranges in complexity similar to…

The author poses this question: When the learning of science is carried on in a foreign language, is the extent and nature of concept-formation different from that required of the student who learns science entirely in his mother tongue? Because the term "scientific concept" is ambiguous, the author suggests five distinct definitions--four groups…

This study explores the possibility that a model developed by J.E.L. Farradane of London may aid in developing a teaching strategy founded upon some of what is known about conceptualization, and providing diagnostic procedures to apply in determining a frame within which to develop a prognosis to adhere to in directing specific concept…

This report investigates those factors, necessary for, or facilitative of, stimulus organization. Part I considers three experimentally controlled factors: (1) stimuli; (2) responses; and (3) temporal organization of stimuli. The results revealed that temporal specing accounted for different findings. When the intertrial interval (ITI) was present…

The author clarifies, in a memorium address, how he experiences phenomenological ideas and how they apply to therapy and supervision. The phenomenological method called "epokhe" is defined as the "suspension of preconceptions" or "judgments" concerning a series of events, and, as a result, the achievement of greater clarity in experiencing those…

The present study was designed to explore the relationship between the theoretical models of cognitive development proposed by L. S. Vygotsky and J. Piaget. One hundred and four subjects aged four to sixteen years were selected. All subjects were in the average range of intelligence, were in the usual school grade for their age, and had no history…