Professor Jung provides an overview of the problems, methods, theoretical formulations, and experimental evidence in contemporary verbal learning research. He presents selected material that is representative of the different central issues in the field rather than providing reviews of the research literature available on various topics.The author employs the transfer of training approach with emphasis on the interrelationships among the three main aspects of verbal learning: acquisition, retention, and transfer. Both learning and forgetting, states Professor Jung, occur in the context of previous learning. He describes both associationistic and cognitive approaches and cites evidence for each point of view. His position is that each approach can account for some phenomena better than the other so that both theories are tenable.
An important factor in myth is humor-by no means the funny kind; profound and quite serious; a brand of laughter that leads "to a new acceptance of the unimaginable, yet inescapable reality." Elaborating on four elements of humor originally propounded by Jean Paul and including the "dimming of opposites" and the use of the "grotesque," Dr. Bolle traces humor from the earliest oriental myths, to such writers as Shakespeare and Heine, and straight through to such modern authors as Gunter Grass. The superb example of "The Churning of the Ocean" from the Ramayana is related in two versions in The Freedom of Man in Myth. Through these and other ancient and modern examples, Dr. Bolle illustrates how man breaks through his otherwise unbreakable restraints. "All men, if they are men at all, give a form to their freedom," and myth is the form. In this way, we cope with the world as it is.
Professor Jung provides an overview of the problems, methods, theoretical formulations, and experimental evidence in contemporary verbal learning research. He presents selected material that is representative of the different central issues in the field rather than providing reviews of the research literature available on various topics.The author employs the transfer of training approach with emphasis on the interrelationships among the three main aspects of verbal learning: acquisition, retention, and transfer. Both learning and forgetting, states Professor Jung, occur in the context of previous learning. He describes both associationistic and cognitive approaches and cites evidence for each point of view. His position is that each approach can account for some phenomena better than the other so that both theories are tenable.
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