(68) Their critiques of legal positivism's problems establishing the moral-political neutrality of
concept formation, selection, and understanding have, in the least, not been completely rebutted.
Executive functions were similar across the three groups as assessed by their
concept formation abilities (Categories Completed) and mental flexibility (Preservative Errors) on the WCST (F=0.44, df=2, p=0.65 and F=0.87, df=2 p=0.42, respectively).
Fluid Reasoning (Gf), is measured by the
Concept Formation and AnalysisSynthesis subtests.
"Putting typologies to work:
Concept formation, measurement, and analytic rigour", Political Research Quarterly, Vol.65, No.1, pp.217-232
Chateau argues that "[t]his historical investigation, which bears on the
concept formation of contemporary psychology, is interested in showing how the determination of these concepts ...
Much like the role played by a word in
concept formation, the role of a currency name (denomination) in setting a monetary identity is a final yet indispensable requirement for clarity and certainty.
Concept formation in human children has been subjected to extensive experimental study, with much focus on the interplay between concept acquisition and language acquisition.
ERIC Descriptors: Chemistry; Fundamental Concepts; Scientific Concepts; Science Instruction; High School Students; Secondary School Science;
Concept Formation; Interviews; Phenomenology
Chapter 3, "Preliminaries to
Concept Formation," regards the "preconceptualization" stage of the uncanny which took place between 1919 and roughly the mid 60's" (49).
To assess students' cognitive ability, we administered the brief intelligence cluster (verbal comprehension, visual matching, and
concept formation) of the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III) Cognitive Test (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001).
In particular, it might have helped to fill out her account if she had mentioned other perspectives on
concept formation. The most obvious one is Wittgenstein's examples of family resemblances, games, and ropes.