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Differences Between Developmental Studies Communication Students and Regular College Communications Students in Their Orientation to Symbols and Their Meanings.

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Griffin, Thomas E. – 1975

This study tested the hypothesis that regular communication students are oriented to more symbols and their meanings than are developmental communication students and thus have more ways to receive information. One-hundred students (50 regular and 50 developmental) at Central Piedmont Community College were given the 220-item Cognitive Style…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension

The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking: An Exploration in Experimental Anthropology.

Cole, Michael; And Others – 1971

After intensively studying for several years the thinking processes of members of a tribal group in Western Africa, the Kpelle, the authors examine the relation between culture and cognitive development. The following issues are discussed: (1) an analysis of the terms "culture" and "cognition"; (2) an ethnographic description of the Kpelle…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes