Executive Leadership in a Changing World Order: Requisite Cognitive Skills. TheFirst Literature Review

摘要

This document reviews the psychological literature for models and taxonomies ofhuman cognition and examines 20 such models and taxonomies by 18 theorists over a period of 67 yearn, from 1923 through 1989. Researchers concluded that, while a number of the models were of great interest, the scientific community does not have a widely accepted, comprehensive theory of cognition or a general theory of learning that allows generalizations of learning principles to specified complex tasks, nor does it appear to have a consensus on the concept of intelligence. Above and beyond those circumstances, one gets little sense of common purpose guiding the development of the more recently derived models of cognition; the