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STAGES IN CONCEPT FORMATION AND LEVELS OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING
Author(s) -
Rommetveit Ragnar
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1960.tb01290.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognitive psychology , salient , cognition , perception , dominance (genetics) , property (philosophy) , mechanism (biology) , concept learning , process (computing) , representation (politics) , cognitive science , social psychology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , neuroscience , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , politics , political science , law , gene , operating system
This paper deals with a process of intuitive concept formation which is assumed to take place when learning of the concept involves unfamiliar discriminations, and is subordinate relative to some salient behavioral goal. Under such conditions, three separate stages of learning are hypothesized. At first, the defining property acquires perceptual dominance. After that, the functional concept is achieved. Finally, the verbal concept is developed as an insight into and symbolic representation of an already established intuitive discriminatory mechanism. This follows from certain theoretical assumptions concerning levels of cognitive organization, it is maintained, and is also in part corroborated by the findings from a preliminary experimental study.