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I don't have answers. I have questions. James Hillman
Answers Questions
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. James J. Gibson
Perception Either Separate Means Thing
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. James J. Gibson
Space Perception Object Color Shape Along Understand Still Trying Sensations Size Psychology Explain Position
A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. James J. Gibson
Cause Other Encounter May Tissue Mechanical Damage
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival. James J. Gibson
Time Survival Degree Animals Young Must Some Perceive Crucial Learn Least Human
Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful. James J. Gibson
Something Shape Meaningful Hence
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. Jean Piaget
Knowledge Active Think Way Idea Another Another Way Still Same Human Essentially Human Knowledge Express
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. Jean Piaget
Problem More Smaller Instead Between New Invites Annoyance Becomes Subject Familiar Avoided Gap Novelty Searching Differentiated
To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other. Jean Piaget
Construction Whatever Own Other Logically Rate Adopted Contain Judgments Demonstrate Link Itself Any Order Succeeding Should Reason Exposition Each
I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. Jean Piaget
Problem Reading Before Think About Like Always
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own. Jean Piaget
Game Own Extremely Say Complex Rules Complex System System Admirable Constitute Laws Instance Contains Institutions Most Boy Jurisprudence Children Social Social Institutions Games Code Marbles Played
The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order. Jean Piaget
Word Three Universe Ought Everyone Rules Moral Physical Laws Both Adult Idea His Dominated Child Order Conform Actions Saturated Things Four Universal
Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life. Jean Piaget
Life Respect Age Important Marked Everyone Rules Feature Knows Impulse Children Form Social Themselves Paid Social Life Regulations Groups Play
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. Jean Piaget
Beginning Too Absolute Never Developmental Genetic Psychology Epistemology
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. Jean Piaget
Own Unaware Only Like Himself His Subject Familiar Child Stages Who Actions Things Earliest
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. Jean Piaget
Knowledge Construction Strong Single Enough Logic Total Support Human Means Human Knowledge
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. Jean Piaget
Thought Static Instance Scientific Process Then Momentary
To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition. Jean Piaget
Good Calm Own Disposition Difficulties Out Bad Lay Rocking Infant Get Accustomed May Foundations
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. Jean Piaget
Time Rise Give Objects Touching Individual Throwing Pushing Abstraction Most Hand Actions Rubbing
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. Jean Piaget
Knowledge Words World Other Immediate Purely Self Contact Practical Begins Stopped Whereas In Other Words Utilitarian Things External External World
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. Jerome Bruner
Education Culture World Will Must Only Also Alternative Provider Them Transmission Explore Views
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. Jerome Bruner
Relationships Facts Learners Discover Encouraged Themselves
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. Jerome Bruner
Work Art Experience Mask Possible Emerge Real Question Effort May Whether Explain Meanings Deep
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. Jerome Bruner
Indifferent However Stimuli Organism Act
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. Jerome Bruner
Perception Recognition Characteristics Temporarily More Observable Generally Thwarted Stimuli Conventional Process Which
Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. Jim Loehr
Time Management Setting Part Boundary Time Management Huge Huge Part Really
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