Content and task dimensions of science items were studied using factor analytic techniques. These items were developed to measure concept attainment using a completely crossed design with 30 concepts and 12 tasks. Conventional factor analyses were performed, separately for boys and girls, for concept scores and for task scores. Three-mode factor…

A study of logic enables students to see what constitutes valid arguments and legitimate fallacies and enables them to apply this to situations in their lives so they can make sound decisions. (JD)

Four types of semantic relation, assumed by different researchers to be implicated in the organization of semantic information, were investigated by means of false recognition and word association tasks presented to independent samples of 4- and 5-year-old children. (Author/SB)

Discusses the theories of Piaget, Bruner, Lifschitz and Langford, Vygotsky and others. (SB)

Discusses the use and stimulation of lateral, or divergent, thinking to promote creativity. (SL)

Although there was an increase in the proportion of students using the logical principle of exclusion" from grades 7 to 9 to 12, there was little relationship with IQ and socio-economic measures. (AL)

Recent American history has been marked by certain changes in popular attitudes that, though difficult to measure, may be the most significant events of our time. The dynamics of public opinion are explored with implications for the future. (Author/RK)

Suggests that the iconic memory impairment of retarded subjects is attributable in part to mental retardation and not simply to low mental age. (Author/ED)

A general discussion of programed instruction as compared to other teaching methods of cognitive skills. Various theories of pedagogy are also discussed. (HB)

Because the pressure of technological advancement has made teaching factual knowledge increasingly difficult, educators have been developing curriculums to transmit intellectual processes applicable to many tasks instead of subject matter content. One of the 20 educational Follow Through programs, the Tucson Early Education Model, surveyed 42…

Suggests that although Piaget's psychological theory is developmental and dialectical in a general way, the lack of a developed philosophical basis leads to the subordination of a dialectical approach to static, anti-dialectical concepts. Hegel's theory of interaction and contradiction is examined to show that dialectical theory has a precise…

While university students are adept at acquiring knowledge, they are less and less skilled in critical thinking, and nearly illiterate in enlarged understanding, or contextual thinking. Higher education trains students to merely assume responsibility for tasks, not think about the larger realities of which they are a part. (MSE)

Article reviews Piaget's views on language and explains why he is not more concerned with this than he is. (AM)

It was concluded that while retinoblastoma per se is not associated with intellectual superiority or inferiority, retinoblastoma associated with blindness may result in selective cognitive superiority. (Authors)