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Peer reviewedWinetrout, Kenneth; Pratte, Richard – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1973
Reprinted from the November 1971 issue of the Journal of Thought.'' (DD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analytical Criticism, Educational Philosophy, Language Patterns
Hample, Dale – 1980
Research indicates that people have two distinct information processing modalities, one for verbal material and one for nonverbal material. The nonverbal mode is used for visual images and is characterized by creative and relatively undisciplined associations. The verbal mode deals with abstract stimuli and is restrained by logic and the need to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Thinking
Download full textJohnson, Mauritz; Posner, George J. – 1971
An experiment was conducted to investigate three topics of current interest in education: critical thinking, programed instruction, and aptitude-treatment interaction. Thirty college students and 31 ninth graders with extreme discrepancies between their verbal and quantitative aptitude scores were taught eight principles of class reasoning by…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude, Critical Thinking
Wax, Murray L.; Luhman, Reid A. – 1974
The study examined the relation of language use and logical thought to social experience with both age and class held constant. The primary assumptions under study were: that the logic of symbolic grouping was highly sensitive to a child's experience with the objects to which that logic was applied; that the existence of diglossia in a bilingual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes
