Previous research has indicated that the physical actions of prayer are especially salient for preschool-aged children, and children in this age range tend to associate prayer with communicating with God. As the context in which children learn about new concepts impacts on how children come to understand those concepts, and children are often introduced to the concept of God through prayer, the...

Within the open innovation debate, significant attention has been paid to the fact that customers can be a useful source for bringing new ideas and concepts into a company. In this context, online platforms have become a widely used instrument to facilitate interaction between companies and customers. While prior literature discusses various aspects of open innovation platforms, a market-orient...

This study discusses various theoretical perspectives on abstract concept formation. Students’ reasoning about abstract objects is described based on proposition that abstraction is a shift from abstract to concrete. Existing literature suggested a theoretical framework for the study. The framework describes process of abstraction through its elements: assembling, theoretical generalization int...

i Preface This study presents a theory and model of memory and remembrance, which is a further explication of the theory of Dynamic Conceptual Semantics and of the Unconscious and Conscious, which has been developed in Bartsch 1998 Dynamic Conceptual Semantic: A Logic-Philosophical Investigation into Concept Formation and Understanding and in it is pointed out how phenomenological data and dyna...

When I speak here in brief about the situation in proof theoretic research, it appears appropriate to remind ourselves of what is characteristic of this research: it is the systematic investigation of the kinds of applications and the consequences of logical reasoning in the mathematical disciplines, in which the concept formations and the assumptions are fixed in such a way that a strict forma...

A reason for using the design method is to facilitate the production of ideas within a certain period. Given many studies of design methods only focus on general introductions about the steps of conduction, the limits of the method, and the applying field of a method, the subtle value of a design method remains ambiguous, increasing the actual usability of a design method uncertain. In this art...

The purpose of the present study was to determine 1) if performance on the California Card Sorting Test (CCST) follows the same developmental gradient as other measures of concept formation and 2) whether the components of concept formation tapped by the CCST are developmentally dissociable. Participants were 68 children and young adults in four age-based groups: 7 to 9 years (n = 13); 10 to 12...

OBJECTIVE A qualitative research design using grounded theory procedures and techniques was used to explore how routine changed in later adulthood for seven Caucasian, college-educated, middle-class women who were not employed and who were free of major functional impairments. METHOD In-depth interviews, observations, an autobiography, and researcher-generated memos provided data. Data analys...

The effect of exposure to principled change in concept formation was investigated in four experiments. In Experiment 1, participants were trained on either patterns that transformed systematically or control patterns that were distorted randomly. Training on transformational patterns produced concepts that were more resistant to false intrusions and decay. Experiment 2 separated the relative in...