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Brown, William R. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1978
Ideologizing is presented as the function of innate intrapersonal and interpersonal categorizing of experience. Ideologies flourish in open systems and decline in closed ones. Classical conceptions of science illustrate the process, to the end that an autonomous scientific ideology for the social sciences, including communication, is suggested.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Communication Skills, Information Theory
Sigel, Irving – 1968
Representational competence refers to the individual's capability to respond appropriately to external representations. For example, a child engaged in a grouping task may collect together all like objects even if the group contains varying representations of the object, including (1) the object itself, (2) a three-dimensional likeness of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Classification