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Title: | Perception, cognitive development and humour in the child |
Authors: | Camilleri, Mario |
Keywords: | Perception in children Cognition in children Humor in children |
Issue Date: | 1983 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Education |
Citation: | Camilleri, M. (1983). Perception, cognitive development and humour in the child. Education, 1(3), 12-17. |
Abstract: | Like beauty, humour is in the eye of the beholder, having no objective existence, being purely a product of the act of perception) In other words, humour results not from the concrete object which impinges physically upon the organism, but from the complex process which organizes and places the sensory-data within a frame of reference, thus bestowing meaning on it. A "humour stimulus" (e.g. a "joke") - like any other stimulus - is intrinsically meaningless, and only acquires meaning after the perceptual process has successfully managed to decipher a pattern in the stimulus which can be matched with pre-existing schemata in the mind. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51721 |
Appears in Collections: | Education, vol. 1, no. 3 Education, vol. 1, no. 3 |
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