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Jerome Bruner
American
Psychologist
About the author
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,
American
Psychologist
#Perception
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,
American
Psychologist
#Work
#Art
#May
#Experience
#Question
#Deep
#Effort
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner,
American
Psychologist
#Work
#Schools
#Laziness
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
Jerome Bruner,
American
Psychologist
#Relationships
#Facts
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
Jerome Bruner,
American
Psychologist
#Act