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Ivey, Allen E.; Matthews, William J. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1984
Presents a meta-model based on genetic epistemology for interviewing structure. Discusses developing rapport, gathering information, determining outcome, exploring alternatives and confronting incongruity, generalizing and transfering training, and the model's usefulness for counselors in planning sessions, developing interviewing summary notes,…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Epistemology, Models

Day, Bryon – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1990
Compares Jamesian and Jungian perspectives on two issues central to the designs of each thinker: the nature of the psyche and the theory of knowledge. Focuses on ways in which Jung's personality theory gives expression to a philosophical position very similar to that developed by James. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Personality, Personality Theories

Simon, George M. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1992
Contends that overemphasis in literature on distinguishing first- and second-order therapeutic perspectives has produced schism within field of family therapy. Attempts to bridge that schism, using view of language that informs dialectical psychology to construct both-order, and framing of first- and second-order, perspectives. Such framing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Epistemology, Family Counseling, Theories

Doucet, Jean-Francois – Impact of Science on Society, 1984
Examines philosophical and epistemological views which indicate that scientific objectivity is simply a shared subjectivity (focusing on categories of the real, imaginary, and symbolic). Also discusses KREATEK, an interdisciplinary database for creative sciences located at the University of Oslo. (JN)
Descriptors: Creativity, Databases, Epistemology, Objectivity

Imre, Roberta Wells – Social Work, 1984
Argues that social work needs a broader epistemology that encompasses all the dimensions of what it means to be a human being. Points out that discourse within social work, especially between researchers and practitioners, cannot move to deeper, more creative levels until these philosophical issues are recognized. (LLL)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Knowledge Level, Philosophy, Social Work
Dyer, Fred C. – Natural History, 1997
Describes the role of mushroom bodies--cup-shaped structures perched atop the brain of an insect--in learning. Mushroom bodies may help fruit flies in learning meaningful odors, cockroaches in spatial learning, and honeybees both in locating pollen and nectar and in navigating back to the colony. (PVD)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Sciences, Brain, Entomology
Bendixen, Lisa D.; Rule, Deanna C. – Educational Psychologist, 2004
This commentary brings together a collection of articles that addresses several of the important issues in research on personal epistemology. We also propose a more integrated model that elaborates on the following fundamental elements of personal epistemology: (a) a mechanism of change (i.e., epistemic doubt, epistemic volition, and resolution…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Cognitive Ability, Metacognition, Epistemology

Campbell, Donald T. – Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1985
Fifteen National Science Foundation personnel met with Donald Campbell to discuss topics/issues related to an epistemologically-relevant sociology of science. Presented is an edited transcript of this roundtable/discussion (part of a series of roundtables which examined theoretical/practical aspects of how the nature of scientific progress is…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Philosophy, Policy Formation, Sciences

Dowd, E. Thomas; Seibel, Cynthia A. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1990
Attempts to integrate the formulations of Brehm and Brehm and of Guidano and sets forth a cognitive theory of resistance and reactance within a cognitive developmental and individual differences context. Differentiates resistance from reactance and explores developmental antecedents of characterological reactance. Describes implications for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Resistance (Psychology)

Bassano, Dominique; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Examines the development of epistemic modality, with particular attention to how French children (four, six, and eight year olds) evaluate the conditions of use for modal expressions marking certainty and uncertainty. Results show that four and six year olds attribute certainty more often than eight year olds. (44 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology

Dansereau, Donald F.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1994
Describes recent modular views of cognition and relates them to counseling approaches. Develops framework for client-counselor interactions that are based on these views and uses framework to examine ways of expressing and representing counseling issues. Reviews previous work with specialized spatial-graphic approaches and introduces general…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling, Counseling Techniques

Taranto, Maria A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Compares and synthesizes past decade of research into facets of wisdom, searching for a unified definition. Concludes that factors relating to wisdom (age, experience, intelligence, knowledge, intuition, common sense, and personality) can be unified theoretically if wisdom is viewed as the recognition of and response to human limitation.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Definitions

Pribram, Karl H. – American Psychologist, 1986
Addresses the mind/brain relationship in terms of scientific theory based on philosophical inquiry. Examines each of the proposed theories about mind/brain relationship--such as identity, dualism, interactionism, materialism, physicalism, and mentalism--not only in terms of logic, but also in terms of the database to which the theories refer. (PS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Encoding (Psychology), Epistemology
Wheeler, David L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Scientists feel that progress in artificial intelligence and the availability of thousands of experimental results make this the right time to build and test theories on how people think and learn, using the computer to model minds. (MSE)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Epistemology, Higher Education

Kelly, I.W. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1980
Examines Jean Piaget's theories on the laws of formal logic, and Johnson's claim that the law of noncontradiction is only descriptive of macroscopic objectives. Suggests Piaget and Johnson are wrong, since the possibility of saying anything significant and informative presupposes the law of noncontradiction is followed. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology