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Demetriou, Andreas; Spanoudis, George; Mouyi, Antigoni – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
This essay first summarizes an overarching theory of cognitive organization and development. This theory claims that the human mind involves (1) several specialized structural systems dealing with different domains of relations in the environment, (2) a central representational capacity system, (3) general inferential processes, and (4)…
Descriptors: Models, Learning Strategies, Individual Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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Hunt, Earl; MacLeod, Colin M. – Intelligence, 1978
The contrasting approaches of differential psychology and cognitive psychology to the same individual differences data are outlined. Using data from the Clark and Chase sentence-picture verification task, four loci of conflict between these two disciplines are identified: (1) theory versus measurement; (2) meaningfulness versus reliability; (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Experimental Psychology
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Stephenson, Bud W.; Hunt, Christine – Counseling Psychologist, 1977
This paper reviews a curriculum program that was focused on promoting intellectual and ethical development in college students. It considers it in a historical and philosophical framework, then describes a research study based on the original program. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, 1975. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages
Snow, Richard E. – 1977
This report collects together three presentations given by the author at scientific and professional meetings during the Spring of 1977. The first discusses present views of the variety and complexity of individual differences among human beings in the context of current research on cognitive processing in learning and instruction. The second…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
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Dweck, Carol S.; Leggett, Ellen L. – Psychological Review, 1988
A research-based model is presented that accounts for major patterns of adaptive and maladaptive behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes. It is postulated that as individuals' self-attributes are translated into allied goals, these goals generate corresponding behavior patterns. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Goal Orientation
Hodge, Virginia D. – 1978
This annotated reading list addresses the problem of the paucity of literature dealing specifically with the relationship between personality and language learning. There is no general theoretical model that encompasses personality theory, self-concept, ego development, learning theory, motivation, and body image as they relate to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Bilingualism, Body Image, Cognitive Development