G'morning Vern,

Forgive me not answering sooner,  but my BBS in Auckland, NZ, 
seems to have gone off air,  and I've only just joined Docs Place 
to catch up.

 VH> It might help of you gave us an example of this behavior.  In fact, if
 VH> it is a broad enough behavior, it might require multiple examples.  By
 VH> categorizing the behavior *as it appears to the observer* you may find
 VH> an example.

 VH> If you presented the problem to me as you have described it above,
 VH> "Elicitation may take any form prompted by logic, reason, research or
 VH> faith - and all forms appear to be equally effective," without telling
 VH> me you are looking for a name, I could name it right off -- that's
 VH> cognitive behavior.

Be it awareness (consciousness) or thinking ?

I'm of the opinion that a good explanation of consciousness will 
probably explain my particular field of interest - or vice versa.

The behaviour I'm concerned with is reading.   There are 
descriptions of teaching reading that cover the last 3,000 years, 
all of them happily succeeding in getting some 80% of pupils up 
and away - even though wildly dissimilar.

None of them ever fail to establish reading behaviour, leading to 
the thought that people acquire reading skills despite the method 
of the moment.

The reason for this seems simple upon analysis - learning to read 
is a matter of small descriminative learnings from conception 
that build on each other until true reading is triggered off by 
external events such as formal teaching at age 5 or 6.

In fact, I'd argue that we overlook the critical age of 0-2 in 
trying to accelorate the learning of reading  -  that we then to 
our best to impede the process by insisting on teaching infants to 
read aloud  -  and that we finish it all off by abandoning people 
at that stage (at about 16) when they should be taught to read 
silently and at 2 or 3 times faster.

It struck me t'other day that there must be similar examples of 
such appearances of behaviour  -  and therefore a `mot juste' for 
it.

What do you think ?

Miles

 
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