The cognitive learning of children is explored in four studies: (1) Alphabet Reading, (2) Learning Reading Units and Classical Concept Formation, (3) Counting Learning and Counting Learning Mediated by Verbal-Response Chains, and (4) Writing Learning, Imitation, and the Cognitive-Learning Acceleration. (NH)

Examines the instructional process from the perspective of a cognitive psychologist concerned with professional higher education. (Editor)

Observes that different kinds of observational sets may elicit different empathic responses from the observers, and that these responses can influence the observers' subsequent willingness to be helpful. (MB)

"A new sort of concept attainment or decoding-encoding experimental paradigm based on the model is developed and an experiment on 5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds is reported. (Author)

One of man's basic instincts is thought, his greatest invention being the symbols of thought used to communicate. Telling and correcting, which evolved as social instincts for individual survival, have become the tools for society's survival and have often been used, by a variety of custodians, to suppress the primordially-earlier, individual…

Process education teaches the student to analyze what is happening within himself when he is learning. This sort of education makes learning how to think a conscious, rather than an accidental, event. (CK)