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Peer reviewedReber, Arthur S.; Allen, Rhianon – Cognition, 1978
College students learned artificial grammar under two conditions: paired associate learning (PA), and observation of exemplars (OBS). OBS induced abstract representation of the rules of grammar. PA produced very different learning--subjects knew some whole items but detected little structure. Grammar was learned largely by analogy rather than…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Grammar
Chu, Chauncey C. – 1978
The Chinese language has long been regarded, mostly by historians and philosophers, as an inadequate vehicle for developing science. This is because the Chinese have developed only correlational logic, analogical thought and relational thinking, which are inappropriate to science. The cause is said to be the structure of Chinese, specifically: (1)…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cognitive Processes
