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Word: ambiguitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research strategy is to interrupt thought processes and study them in parts. For example, visual perception involves seeing many things simultaneously. Bruner breaks down this process with a gadget called an "ambiguitor," which brings a picture into focus so gradually that a viewer gets trapped into false hypotheses about what he is seeing. Result: embryo techniques for perceiving more astutely. The Center bustles with other odd projects, from teaching quadratic functions to young children to time-lapse photographs of tots drawing (the best way to see how they see). All this is pure research, but out of it may someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Raise Man's Potential | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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