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Peer reviewedAlexander, Robert – Language Arts, 1984
Touches on the cognitive and self-discovery processes and imagination and creativity children experience before their verbal skills are fully developed. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedHartung, Maurice L. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedHolmberg, Carl B. – Communication Education, 1981
Discusses Richard McKeon's architectonic productive art method and its application to the pedagogy of invention. (Defines architectonic productive art as a systematic method for recognizing the organizing principles in the inquired subject which is itself an organizing system.) (PD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discovery Processes, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBaker-Sennett, Jacquelyn; Ceci, Stephen J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1996
Two studies were conducted, one using 80 university students and the other 140 fifth through seventh graders, to examine the relationship between problem-solving strategies (leaping and flexibility) and measures of insight and scholastic aptitude. Relationships among insight, leaping, and quantitative scholastic aptitude were found. A…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking
Download full textLangston, M. Diane – 1986
Many people are interested in computer aids to rhetorical invention and want to know how to evaluate an invention aid, what the criteria are for a good one, and how to assess the trade-offs involved in buying one product or another. The frame of reference for this evaluation is an "old paradigm," which treats the computer as if it were…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Authoring Aids (Programing), Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewedBoice, Robert; Meyers, Patricia E. – Written Communication, 1986
Reviews automaticity, effortless writing that enjoys freedom from excessive conscious interference, in terms of its origins in automatic writing and growth into contemporary techniques. Characterizes automaticity as a (1) form of dissociation from consciousness; (2) succor to spontaneity and creativity; and (3) key to understanding why some…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing, Discovery Processes
Smith, Robert D. – Educ Sci Int J, 1969
A technological approach to the management of higher education is presented. (CK)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Decision Making
Yontef, Gary M. – 1981
When adequately elaborated, the basic method of Gestalt therapy can be traced to the phenomenological field theory of Gestalt psychology. Gestalt therapy differs from Gestalt psychology not because of a difference in philosophy or method, but because of different contexts; the clinical context has different demands than those of basic research.…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Counselor Client Relationship, Dialogs (Literary)
Price, LaMar – 1968
Investigated was the readiness of fifth, seventh, and eighth graders trained to empirically gather data by manipulating objects and materials with their hands, and to transfer this skill to a problem situation outside the classroom. After one semester's training in the science process under investigation, the increase in the use of the strategy of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Science
Scharff, Charles E. – 1974
This paper discusses the benefits of teaching literature through levels of understanding so that teachers can more quickly and efficiently determine the operational levels of individual students. The seven levels of understanding and some of the generic questions by which they can be determined are: (1) perceptual level: "What happened, when,…
Descriptors: Characterization, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
Ferrara, Francesca – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The paper considers a teaching experiment carried out with secondary school students (9th grade), who face modelling tasks to approach some basic concepts of algebra and early calculus. The focus is on an embodied analysis of students' cognitive processes. The analysis highlights the use of metaphors as a means of sharing knowledge. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Cognitive Processes, Calculus, Discovery Processes
Kim, J. B. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to examine Edward Lorenz's psychological processes and other environmental aspects in the discovery of chaos at that time. The general concept of chaos is discussed based on relations with previous scientific theories such as Newtonian physics and quantum mechanics. The constraints of discovery in terms of available…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Computers
Moore, Michael T. – 1985
Based on a study dealing with problem-finding behavior of artists as the first step in the creative process (Getzels and Czikszentmihalyi), this study on the empirical nature of problem-finding included middle school students from a suburban-rural area in Western Pennsylvania. Eight students identified through three measures as creative were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Discovery Processes, Essay Tests
Thompson, Mark E. – 1977
This paper examines some basic principles of learning theory that have been developed within the discipline of psychology. A brief resume of the psychologist's efforts to analyze the phenomenon of learning within a scientific setting is presented as well as attempts to apply this research to a practical situation (e.g. the classroom). More…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Discovery Processes, Educational Psychology
KEISLAR, EVAN R.; SHULMAN, LEE S. – 1966
THIS VOLUME IS DIVIDED INTO FIVE MAJOR SECTIONS. IN THE FIRST SECTION, HAWKINS STATES THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS WHICH CAN ONLY BE LEARNED BY DISCOVERY. GLASER IMPLIES THAT WHEN AN OBJECT IS DESCRIBED IN BEHAVIORAL TERMS, THE BEHAVIOR IS TEACHABLE. IN THE SECOND SECTION, WITTROCK REVIEWS THE LITERATURE OF RESEARCH. CRONBACH PRESENTS A CRITICAL…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conferences, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
