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Download full textKleinfeld, Judith – 1970
The study suggested (1) that Eskimos possess unusual cognitive strengths which are rarely recognized and (2) that these talents may reflect high intellectual abilities in such areas as perceptual analysis and image memory. It was noted that the performances of Eskimos on measures of these cognitive abilities approximate and in some instances…
Descriptors: Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Achievement, American Indians
Peer reviewedOtte, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990
Compared and contrasted are the concepts intuition and logic. The ideas of conceptual thought and algorithmic thought are discussed in terms of the world as a labyrinth, intuition and time, and the structure of knowledge. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algorithms, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
