Levels of Cognitive Complexity An Approach to the Measurement of Thinking
This research monograph describes a new approach to the measurement of thinking processes. The author begins with a discussion of the logic of thought versus the psychology of thinking. Traditionally, thinking has been defined in terms of the logical thought processes which lead to warranted conclus...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
| Series: | Recent Research in Psychology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Approaches to Studying Reasoning
- Conceptions of Thinking
- Tests of Thinking
- 2 Thinking as Levels of Cognitive Complexity
- The Describer-Explainer Continuum
- Perry’s Positions of Intellectual Development
- Information Processing Structures
- 3 Interpretive Exercises and the Scoring Rationale for Evaluating Levels of Thinking
- Interpretive Exercises
- The Scoring Rationale for Evaluating Levels of Thinking
- 4 Empirical Studies
- Experimental Groups
- School Achievement Variables
- Relationship to Writing Proficiency
- Orientation to Learning Variables
- Correlation with Orientation to Learning Variables
- Other Measures of Cognitive Ability and Thinking Processes
- Correlations with Other Thinking Exercises
- The Two Helmets Test
- The Jefferson Davis Exercise
- The Holocaust
- The Mystery of Pearl Harbor
- Levels of Thinking and Discourse Structure
- Generalizing the Cognitive Complexity Approach
- Appendix A
- Scoring Rationale for Levels of Thinking
- Levels of Cognitive Complexity
- Appendix B
- Practice Examples
- Test Examples
- Appendix C Answer Sheet for the Bomb Factories
- References
- Related References