Nebraska Symposium Research Articles

Dream Concepts of Hausa Children:

EthosVolume 3, Issue 2 p. 209-230 Free Access Dream Concepts of Hausa Children: A Critique of the “Doctrine of Invariant Sequence” in Cognitive Development Richard A. Shweder, Richard A. Shweder Richard A. Shweder is assistant professor of human development in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Committee on Human Development, at the University of Chicago.Search for more papers by this authorRobert A. LeVine, Robert A. LeVine Robert A. LeVine is professor of anthropology, psychiatry, and human development at the University of Chicago.Search for more papers by this author Richard A. Shweder, Richard A. Shweder Richard A. Shweder is assistant professor of human development in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Committee on Human Development, at the University of Chicago.Search for more papers by this authorRobert A. LeVine, Robert A. LeVine Robert A. LeVine is professor of anthropology, psychiatry, and human development at the University of Chicago.Search for more papers by this author First published: Summer 1975 https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1975.3.2.02a00090Citations: 19 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES Alston, William P. 1971. Comments on Kohlberg's “From Is to Ought”, Cognitive Development and Epistemology ( Theodore Mischel, ed.), pp. 269– 288. Academic Press. Black, Max. 1962. The Analysis of Rules, Models and Metaphors; Studies in Language and Philosophy ( Max Black, ed.), pp. 95– 139. Cornell University Press. Ducasse, Curt. 1961. In Defense of Dualism, Dimensions of Mind ( Sidney Hook, ed.), pp. 85– 89. Collier Books. Durkheim, Emile. 1960. Pragmatism and Sociology, Essays on Sociology and Philosophy ( Kurt H. Wolff, ed.), pp. 386– 436. Harper and Row. Hamlyn, D. D. 1971. Epistemology and Conceptual Development, Cognitive Development and Epistemology ( Theodore Mischel, ed.), pp. 3– 24. Academic Press. Hanson, N. R. 1961. The Stratification of Concepts, Dimensions of Mind ( Sidney Hook, ed.), pp. 211– 213. Collier Books. Hoffman, Martin L. 1970. Moral Development, Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology ( Paul H. Mussen, ed.), pp. 261– 349. J. Wiley. Jones, Edward E., and Richard E. Nisbett. 1972. The Actor and the Observer: Divergent Perceptions of the Causes of Behavior, Attribution: Perceiving the Causes of Behavior ( Edward E. Jones, et al., eds.), pp. 79– 94. General Learning Press. Kelley, Harold H. 1967. Attribution Theory in Social Psychology, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation ( David Levine, ed.), pp. 192– 240. University of Nebraska Press. Kohlberg, Lawrence. 1966. Cognitive Stages and Preschool Education. Human Development 9: 5– 17. Kohlberg, Lawrence. 1969. Stage and Sequence: The Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Socialization, Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research ( David A. Goslin, ed.), pp. 347– 480. Rand McNally and Co. Laurendeau, Monique, and Adrien Pinard. 1962. Causal Thinking in Children. International Universities Press. LeVine, Robert A., and Douglas R. Price-williams. 1974. Children's Kinship Concepts: Cognitive Development and Early Experience Among the Hausa. Ethnology 13: 25– 44. Mead, Margaret. 1932. An Investigation of the Thought of Primitive Children, with Special Reference to Animism. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 62: 173– 190. Nagel, Ernest. 1961. Psychology and the Analysis of Concepts in Use, Dimensions of Mind ( Sidney Hook, ed.), pp. 208– 210. Collier Books. Piaget, Jean. 1929. The Child's Conception of the World. Harcourt, Brace and Co.. Schooler, Carmi, and William Caudill. 1964. Symptomatology in Japanese and American Schizophrenics. Ethnology 3: 172– 178. Toulmin, Stephen. 1961. Concept-Formation in Philosophy and Psychology, Dimensions of Mind ( Sidney Hook, ed.), pp. 191– 203. Collier Books. Toulmin, Stephen. 1969. Concepts and the Explanation of Human Behavior, Human Action ( Theodore Mischel, ed.), pp. 71– 104. Academic Press. Toulmin, Stephen. 1971a. The Concept of “Stages” in Psychological Development, Cognitive Development and Epistemology ( Theodore Mischel, ed.), pp. 25– 60. Toulmin, Stephen. 1971b. From Logical Systems to Conceptual Populations, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VIII ( Roger C. Buck and Robert S. Cohen, eds.), pp. 552– 564. D. Reidel Publishing Co.. Toulmin, Stephen. 1972. Human Under standing. Volume I. Princeton University Press. Wason, P. C., and P. N. Johnson-Laird 1972. Psychology of Reasoning. B. T. Batsford Ltd.. Citing Literature Volume3, Issue2Summer 1975Pages 209-230 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1972

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1972

Sociocultural Factors and the Early Manifestation of Sociability Behavior Among Baranda Infants

Sociocultural Factors and the Early Manifestation of Sociability Behavior Among Baranda Infants

Historical Inference from Cross‐Cultural Data: The Case of Dowry

EthosVolume 1, Issue 4 p. 517-520 Free Access Historical Inference from Cross-Cultural Data: The Case of Dowry GaryB. Jackson, GaryB. Jackson Gary B. Jacksonis a graduate student in Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.Search for more papers by this authorA. KimballRomney, A. KimballRomney A. KimballRomneyis a Professor of Anthropology also at the School of Social Sciences, University of California. Irvine.Search for more papers by this author GaryB. Jackson, GaryB. Jackson Gary B. Jacksonis a graduate student in Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.Search for more papers by this authorA. KimballRomney, A. KimballRomney A. KimballRomneyis a Professor of Anthropology also at the School of Social Sciences, University of California. Irvine.Search for more papers by this author First published: Winter 1973 https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1973.1.4.02a00130Citations: 12 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES Coult, Allan D., and Robert W. Habenstein. 1965. Cross Tabulations of Murdock's World Ethnographic Sample. University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. David G. Mandelbaum (ed.). 1958. Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, Personality. University of California Press. (Originally published in 1949.). Murdock, George P. 1957. World Ethnographic Sample. American Anthropologist 59: 664– 687. Whiting, John W. M. 1959. Sorcery, Sin, and the Superego: A Cross-Cultural Study of Some Mechanisms of Social Control, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, pp. 174– 195. University of Nebraska Press. Whiting, John W. M. 1962. Comment. American Journal of Sociology 67: 391– 393. Whiting, John W. M. 1964 Effects of Climate on Certain Cultural Practices, Explorations in Cultural Anthropology ( Ward H. Goodenough, ed.), pp. 511– 544. McGraw-Hill. Whiting, John W. M., Eleanor H. Chasdi, Helen F. Antonovsky, and Barbara C. Ayers. 1966. The Learning of Values, People of Rimrock ( Evon Z. Vogt and Ethel M. Albert, eds.), pp. 83– 125. Harvard University Press. Citing Literature Volume1, Issue4Winter 1973Pages 517-520 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Review of Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1971.

Review of Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1971.

The Long View from the Nebraska Symposium

The Long View from the Nebraska Symposium

Review of Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: 1969.

Review of Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: 1969.

COMPLEXITY AND PREFERENCE IN ANIMALS AND MEN*

Complexity and preference are terms that are relevant to a theory of behavior I presented at the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation several years ago.' The research effort I wish to discuss is based on that theoretical statement. The theory differs very little from an earlier theory published by Dember and Earl (see Dember2) and it incorporates concepts developed by Berlyne.' The theory contains a small number of terms or concepts and hypotheses which I should like to review briefly in order to make it possible to use them discriminatively in discussing the research. The terms are: Psychological Event, Stimulus Complexity, Psychological Complexity and Optimal Complexity. From these is developed a theory of Preference or choice among psychological events. A hypothesis concerning expected changes in optimal complexity with experience produces an expected set of Changes in Complexity and Preference with Experience. This much is relevant to the experiments to be discussed here. An additional concept, arousal, is in the theory but not germane to these experiments and will not be discussed further. Psychological Event. This is a term I have used to identify a central unit of activity. A psychological event may be initiated by an external stimulus, but many psychological events have the appearance of spontaneity. A response may result from a psychological event, but many psychological events occur without a visible product. A psychological event may have a conscious representation and, thus, the character of perception, but there are circumstances under which psychological events occur without conscious awareness. Thus the need for such a concept arises from the limitations imposed by the concepts of stimulus, response, perception, and cognition, any or all of which may reflect a psychological event, but none of which is identical. Stimulus Complexity. This term refers to the complexity of the distal stimulus. The essential characteristic of stimulus complexity-as distinguished from psychological complexity-is that it should be possible to assign a number to a stimulus that represents its complexity and that this value should remain fixed. Often this appears to be no problem, but I believe appearances to be deceiving. With certain kinds of stimulus materials, one can perform a counting operation. One can have stimuli that vary in the number of dots, or polygons that vary in the number of sides. On a priori grounds, it seems reasonable that a card with 50 dots is a more complex stimulus than a card with five, or that a polygon with 20 sides is more complex than a polygon with four sides. Yet, if we subject a set of such materials to psychological scaling procedures, it is very unlikely that there will be perfect agreement between our numerical count and the results of the scaling. One is then tempted to undertake to resolve the discrepancies in terms of factors that were not included in the count-configurational or pattern factors. Alternatively, one can choose one of the two values, the numerical count or the results of psychological scaling, and choose to ignore the other. The question then becomes, which does one choose? I think there is no question that the choice must be the psychologically derived

Book Reviews

Abstract Milechnin, A. La Hipnosis. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Hachette, 1961. Pp. 383 + xi. $8.00 (U.S.). Reviewed by Hilton L. Lopez, M.D. Hastings, D. Impotence and Frigidity. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Pp. ix + 144. $5.60. Reviewed by T. F. A. von Dedenroth, M.D. Fry, W., Jr. Sweet Madness, A Study of Humor. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Book Publishers, 1963. Pp. IX + 178. Clothbound, $3.95, Paper-bound, $1.95. Reviewed by Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Levine, D. (Ed). Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 1964. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. X + 284. Clothbound $5.50, Paperbound $2.50. Reviewed by Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1961

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Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1959

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1959

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: 1955

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: 1955

Motivation and personality and Nebraska symposium on motivation.

Motivation and personality and Nebraska symposium on motivation.

Review of Nebraska symposium on motivation: 1954.

Review of Nebraska symposium on motivation: 1954.