But to the child the process of arriving at this meaning or concept has been largely unconscious. He has never said to himself, "Lo! I shall proceed to discover the characteristics common to all dogs but not enjoyed by cats and teddybears. The Big Book of Concepts - Page 13by Gregory Murphy - 2004 - 568 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Clark Leonard Hull - Abstraction - 1920 - 612 pages
...all sorts of other absorbing experiences which are contributing to the formation of other concepts. At length the time arrives when the child has a "meaning"...all dogs but not enjoyed by cats and 'teddy-bears'." The formation of the concept has never been an end deliberately sought for itself (7, 204). It has... | |
| Clark Leonard Hull - Abstraction - 1920 - 650 pages
...has a "meaning" for the word dog. Upon examination this meaning is found to be actu•••i ally a characteristic more or less common to all dogs and...all dogs but not enjoyed by cats and 'teddy-bears'." The formation of the concept has never been an end deliberately sought for itself (7, 204). It has... | |
| John Frederick Dashiell - Behaviorism (Psychology) - 1928 - 636 pages
...all sorts of other absorbing experiences which are contributing to the formation of other concepts. At length the time arrives when the child has a "meaning"...all dogs but not enjoyed by cats and 'teddy-bears.'" The formation of the concept has never been an end deliberately sought for itself. It has always been... | |
| K. Goldstein - Philosophy - 1972 - 540 pages
...the word 'dog.' Upon examination this meaning is found to be actually characteristic more or less of all dogs and not common to cats, dolls and 'teddybears.'...characteristics common to all dogs but not enjoyed by cats and teddy bears' " (38, pp. 5-6). We have already referred to W. Stem and K. BUhler in this connection... | |
| P. N. Johnson-Laird, P. C. Wason - Psychology - 1977 - 636 pages
...Hull's (1920) experiment different pairings of the word and the entity acquires the common element. 'But to the child the process of arriving at this meaning or concept has been largely unconscious' (Hull, 1920, pp. 5-6). The 'common element' or monothetic view of concepts is also apparent in the... | |
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