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TitleNotes on Pre-1953 Studies of Thinking
Date1899-1952
Extent1-Box file
DescriptionFile contains approx 95 bundles of notes mostly handwritten with some typed,concerning pre-1953 studies and thinking, collected by L S Hearnshaw from various journals, books and authors.

The notes are entitled:

The Development of Concepts, from the Annual review of Psychology, 1950

Generalization of a Reference Scale for Judging Pitch, Johnson,D.M 1949

Towards a Dynamic psychology of Cognition, Heidbredder, E, 1945

Humphrey, George The Problem of Generalization, Bulletin of the Canadian Psychological Association, 1944

Cerebral Influences:
Postman, L The Generalization Gradient in Recognition Memory, 1951

Bulles, Mary M The Basis of Pertinence, 1937

Conceptual Thinking, (Miscellaneous) (In alphabetical order of Authors):
Factorial Studies

Nissen, Henry W, Blum, Josephine Semmes and Blum, Robert A, Conditional Matching behaviour in Chimpanzee, Implications for the Comparative Study of Intelligence, 1949

Meyer, Donald R and Harlow, H.F. The Development of Transfer of Response to Patterning by Monkeys, 1949

Meredith, G.P. A Revision of Spearman's Nuegenetic Principles, 1948-9

Marlow, A.H. Cognition of the particular and of the generic, 1948

Lashley, K.S. and Wade, M The Pavlovian Theory of Generalization, 1946

Harlow, H.F. The Formation of Learning Sets, 1949

Walters, A.W.P. On Conceptual Thinking, 1933

Weigl, E On the psychology of so called processes of Abstraction, 1941

Commentary on Vinacke's Article

The Investigation of Concept Formation, 1951

Experimental Investigations with Conceptual Thinking

Kulpe, O Versuche uber Abstraction, 1904

Grunbaum, A.A. Uber die Abstraktion der Gleichheit, 1908

Moore, T.V. The Process of Abstraction, 1910

Aveling, F.A.P. On the Consciousness of the Universal and the Individual, 1912

Fisher, C The Process of Generalizing Abstraction; and its product the General Concept, 1916

Hill, Clark L Quantitive Aspects of the Evolution of Concepts, 1920

Peterson, J.C. The Higher Mental Processes in Learning, 1920

2-Willwoll, Uber die Begriffsbilding Ach and Ach.IV 1921

English, H.B. An Expl, study of certain Initial Phases and the Process of Abstraction, 1922

Eliasberg, W, Recent Work in the Psychology of Forming Concepts, 1923

Kuo, Z.Y. A Behavioristic Experiment on Inductive Inference, 1923

An Expt. Study of Thinking, 1924

Willwoll, A, Begriffsbilding Psychol Monog, Leipzig 1926

Gengerelli, J.A. 'Mutual Interference in the Evolution of Concepts, 1927

Fowler, H.L An Investigation into Methods of Teaching, Development of Concepts,1931

Smoke, K.L. An Objective Study of Concept Formation, 1932

Peterson, G.M. An Empirical Study of the Ability to Generalize, 1932

Smoke, K.L. The Experimental Approach to Concept Learning, 1935

Graham, J.L Learning to Generalize, 1938

Heidbreder, E The Attainment of Concepts, 1946

Cameron, Norman' Reasoning, Regression and Communication in Schizophrenics,from Psychological Monographs, 1938
Clinical:

Duncher, Problem Solving

Wertheimer, M, Productive Thinking, 1945

Harlow H.F. Thinking, 1951

Some Notes from Darcy's 'Logic:The Theory of Inquiry, 1938

2- page copy typed document from 'Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1948

Selz, ) Zur Psychologie Des Produktiven Denkens und des irrtums, 1922

Seaward, J.P. The sign of a Symbol: a reply, 1948

McDougall, W Outline of Psychology

Marcos Godi, Joreno and Blumenfield, Waller

Littman, Richard A. Conditioned Generalization of the Galvanic Skin Reaction toTones, 1949

Rapaport, D 'Diagnostic Psychological Testing', 1947

Pratt, C.C. Expl. Studies of Thought and Reasoning, 1928

Tolman, E.C. A Cognition Motivational Model, 1952

Gardner, Murphy The Freeing of Intelligence, 1945

Maier, N.R.F. The Behaviour Mechanisms concerned with Problem Solving, 1940

Arnold, H Buss, A Study of Concept Formation as a Function of reinforcement and stimulus generalization, 1950

Wenxel, Bonnie M and Plurry, Christine 'The Sequential Order of Concept Attainment' 1948

Reed, H.B.The Learning and Retention of Concepts, the Influence of Form of Presentation, 1950

Reed, H.B. Factors influencing the learning and retention of concepts, 1946

Ogden, C.K.and Richards, I.A. The Meaning of Meaning, 1923

Goldstein-Scheerer Tests of Abstract and Concrete Thinking

Dixon, J.C. Concept Formation and Emergence of Contradictory Relations, 1949

Cohen, M.R. 'Concepts and Twilight Zones, 1927

Gibson, E.J. 'A Systematic Application of the Concepts of Generalization and Differentation to Verbal Learning, 1940

The Behaviour Mechanisms concerned with problem Solving, 1940

Chritchfield, R.S. and Tolman, E.C. 'Multiple-Variable Design for Experiments Involving Interaction of Behaviour, 1940

Titchener, Exp' Psychology of the Thought Processes, 1909

Spearman, Conception, Judgement and Reasoning, 1927

Smith, W.G. 'A Comparison of Some Mental and Physical Tests in their application to epileptic and to normal subjects, 1905

Shipley-Institute of Living Scale for Measuring Intellectual Impairment

Sherif, M. An Outline of Social Psychology

Riess, B.F. Genetic Changes In Semantic Conditioning, 1946

Rimat, F Intelligenzuntersuchungen anschiesand an die Ach'sche Suchmethode, 1925

Ribot, T, The Evolution of General Ideas, 1899

Razran, Gregory ' Semantic and Phonetographic Generalizations of Salivary Conditioning to Verbal Stimuli', 1949

Razran, G, Stimulus Generalization of Conditioned Responses, 1949

Razran, G.H.S. 'Studies in Configural Conditioning Generalization and Transposition, 1940

Osgood C.E. 'The Similarity Paradox in Human Learning, 1949

The Third Mental Measurements Yearbook

Harlow, H.F. Performance of Catarrhine Monkeys on a Series of Discrimination Reversal Problems, 1950

Harlow, H.F. Studies in Discrimination Learning by Monkeys, 1945

Hanfmann and Kasanin, J 'Conceptual Thinking in Schizophrenia' 1942

Hall, K.R.L. The Testing of Abstraction, with particular reference to deterioration in schizophrenia, 1950

G.Robert Grice, Visual Discrimination Learning with Simultaneous and Successive Presentation of Stimuli, 1949

Grandine, L and Harlow, H.F.' Generalization of the Characteristics of a singlelearned stimulus by Monkeys, 1948

Goldstein, Kurt 'Language and Language Disturbances', New York 1948

Gilmour, J.S.L. The development of Taxonomic theory since 1851, 1951

Fey, Elizabeth I The Performance of young schizophrenics and young normals on the Wisconsin card sorting test, 1951

Psychological Monographs, Vol.53 No.2, 1941

The Relative Difficulty of the Number, Form, and Colour concepts of a weigh-type problem, 1949

3-Psychological Abstracts. Vol. 27,No.4 (2932) Vol. 27, No.4 (2544), Vol.27 No.7 (4796)

1-Drawing of shapes

4-loose pages of notes.
Formattextual material
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