Concept Formation

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Involuntary aware memory enhances priming on a conceptual implicit memory task.

This study investigated the role of involuntary aware memory (phenomenological awareness of the study episode) on a conceptual implicit memory task. Subjects studied words under levels of processing conditions (LOP: nonsemantic vs. semantic) and then ...
John H Mace (Am J Psychol, 2003SUMMER)
involuntary-aware-memory-enhances-priming-conceptual-implicit-memory.asp

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Concept advancement: enhancing inductive validity.

Enhancing inductive validity while advancing a concept has always been a dilemma for qualitative researchers. This dilemma is paramount for researchers completing a series of small discrete projects all focused on the same concept. How do researchers use ...
Judith E Hupcey, Janice Penrod (Res Theory Nurs Pract, 2003SPRING)
concept-advancement-enhancing-inductive-validity.asp

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Developing focused wellness programs: using concept analysis to increase business value.

Concept analysis is a useful tool in providing clarity to an abstract idea as well as an objective basis for developing wellness program products, goals, and outcomes. To plan for and develop successful wellness programs, it is critical for occupational ...
Lance Byczek, Christine M Kalina, Pamela F Levin (AAOHN J, 200309)
developing-focused-wellness-programs-concept-analysis-increase.asp

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Counterfactual cognitive deficit in persons with Parkinsons disease.

BACKGROUND: Counterfactuals are mental representations of alternatives to past events. Recent research has shown them to be important for other cognitive processes, such as planning, causal reasoning, problem solving, and decision making-all processes ...
P McNamara, R Durso, A Brown, A Lynch (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200308)
counterfactual-cognitive-deficit-persons-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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Relative clause comprehension revisited: commentary on Eisenberg (2002).

Eisenberg (2002) presents data from an experiment investigating three- and four-year-old childrens comprehension of restrictive relative clauses (RC). From the results she argues, contrary to Hamburger & Crain (1982), that children do not have discourse ...
Evan Kidd (J Child Lang, 200308)
relative-clause-comprehension-revisited-commentary-eisenberg.asp

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A strategy for teaching students concepts of population-based health care for older persons.

The authors present a strategy for organizing and teaching the concepts of population-based health care for patients over the age of 65. The key ingredients are a case study based on a representative sample of 5,000 Medicare recipients and a student ...
George C Xakellis, Mark Robinson (Acad Med, 200308)
strategy-teaching-students-concepts-population-based-health-care.asp

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Psychiatric resident conceptualizations of mood and affect within the mental status examination.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the ways in which psychiatry residents conceptualize the terms "mood" and "affect," a 14-item questionnaire was sent to residency programs in New York. METHOD: The questions consisted of possible definitions of mood and affect; all ...
Michael Serby (Am J Psychiatry, 200308)
psychiatric-resident-conceptualizations-mood-affect-mental-status.asp

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Beyond learning fixed rules and social cues: abstraction in the social arena.

Abstraction is a central idea in many areas of physical comparative cognition such as categorization, numerical competence or problem solving. This idea, however, has rarely been applied to comparative social cognition. In this paper, I propose that the ...
Joseph Call (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200307)
beyond-learning-fixed-rules-social-cues-abstraction-social-arena.asp

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A neuroscientific grasp of concepts: from control to representation.

Abstraction denotes the cognitive process by means of which general concepts are formed. The dominant view of abstraction considers it not only as a complex and sophisticated cognitive activity, but also as a distinctive hallmark of mankind. The ...
Vittorio Gallese (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200307)
neuroscientific-grasp-concepts-control-representation.asp

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Abstraction in perceptual symbol systems.

After reviewing six senses of abstraction, this article focuses on abstractions that take the form of summary representations. Three central properties of these abstractions are established: ( i ) type-token interpretation; (ii) structured ...
Lawrence W Barsalou (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200307)
abstraction-perceptual-symbol-systems.asp