ON THE NATURE OF THE PERCEPTUAL SPEED FACTOR

W erdelin , I. & S tjernberg , G. On the nature of the perceptual speed factor. Scand. J. Psychol ., 1969, 10, 185–192.–149 subjects, about 15 years old, were given 25 psychological tests. Some of these defined the reference factors R, S, N , and P , others were designed to study the nature of the P factor. It was found that certain visual tests showed successively higher loadings in the P and N factors the more they were practiced. This effect of practice is probably restricted to tests of a certain kind. Very simple visual tests showed high loadings in the P factor. Hypotheses as to the nature of the P factor are suggested.     

ON THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISCOVERY

Abstract. Despite the by now historical tendency to demarcate scientific epistemology sharply from virtually all others, especially theological "epistemology ," it has recently been recognized that both enterprises share a great deal in common, at least as far as the epistemology of discovery is implicated. Such a claim is founded upon a psychological analysis of figuration, where, it is argued, metaphor plays a crucial role in the mediation of discovery, in the domains of science and religion alike. Thus, although the conventionally conceived scientific method is crucial to the enterprise, primacy must nonetheless be accorded to discovery , which drives virtually all disciplines.     

VAN FRAASSEN ON THE NATURE OF EMPIRICISM

Abstract: A traditional view is that to be an empiricist is to hold a particular epistemological belief: something to the effect that knowledge must derive from experience. In his recent book The Empirical Stance, and in a number of other publications, Bas van Fraassen has disagreed, arguing that if empiricism is to be defensible it must instead be thought of as a stance: an attitude of mind or methodological orientation rather than a factual belief. In this article I will examine his arguments for this claim in detail. I will argue that they do not succeed and that empiricism is, contrary to van Fraassen's claim, better thought of as a truth‐evaluable doctrine than as a stance.     

关于词对音位知觉的影响的性质

本文报告的实验以反应时作指标研究词对音位知觉的影响的性质,检验Ganong提出的两种模型——相互作用模型和范畴模型。实验结果表明,词的作用随反应时的增加而减小。结果倾向于支持相互作用模型。     

BUDD AND BRADY ON THE AESTHETICS OF NATURE

The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature: Essays on the Aesthetics of Nature. B y M alcolm B udd .
Aesthetics of the Natural Environment. B y E mily B rady .     

康有为人性论思想研究

康有为的人性论思想包含三个部分：（１）自然人性论,它是康有为人性论思想的核心;（２）情欲合理论,它是康有为人性论思想中重要的和颇具特色的组０成部分;（３）变化气质论,它是康有为人性论思想中具有实践意义的内容,也是康有为的自然人性论与中国古代的自然人性论的区别所在。康有为的人性论思想汲取了我国古代人性论思想的精华,并有新的发展,批判地继承康有为的人性论思想,对于我国心理学思想的发展和当前的教育实践具有重要意义。     

NATURE AS THE IMAGE OF GOD: REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNS OF THE SACRED

Abstract. This is a brief survey of aspects of the modern scientific view of nature to see if implied therein are signs or traces of the sacred–as early religious apprehension surely supposed. Nature's power and order are discussed as is the strange dialectic of death and life, evident in modern biology as it also is in all early religion.     

主体因素对学习判断孤立效应的影响

通过两个实验探讨主体因素差异对学习判断值及其孤立效应的影响。选取708名高一学生作为被试,男女各半。实验一考察主体对材料性质的觉知感差异对学习判断值及其孤立效应的影响,实验二考察主体对材料项目数的确定感差异对学习判断值及其孤立效应的影响。结果表明,提高主体对材料性质的觉知感,可以提高学习判断值,但并没有提高学习判断的孤立效应;而提高主体对材料项目数的确定感,不仅可以提高学习判断值,而且可以提高学习判断的孤立效应。     

关于智力的本质

智力这个概念长期以来缺乏一个公认的定义,作者根据当代的材料尝试提一个定义,供讨论。这个定义是:智力是脑神经活动的针对性、广扩性、深入性和灵活性在任何一项神经活动和由它引起并与它相互作用的意识性的心理活动中的协调反映。     

THE NATURE OF TESTIMONY

Abstract:  I discuss several views of the nature of testimony and show how each proposal has importantly different problems. I then offer a diagnosis of the widespread disagreement regarding this topic; specifically, I argue that our concept of testimony has two different aspects to it. Inadequate views of testimony, I claim, result either from collapsing these two aspects into a single account or from a failure to recognize one of them. Finally, I develop an alternative view of testimony that captures both aspects of the nature of testimony and thereby provides the basis for an illuminating theory of testimony's epistemological significance.