Question

What is a concept. Explain the role of concept in the thinking process.

Answer 1

Concepts are mental categories for objects and events, which are similar to each other in one or more than one way.

• They may be organised in schema. They are mental frameworks which represents our knowledge and assumptions about the world.

• Concepts are building blocks of thinking. They allow us to organize knowledge in systematic ways.

• Concept formation is a basic task of thinking,i.e., identifying the stimulus properties that are common to a class of objects or ideas, e.g., in the activity, the participant has to classify the stimuli either on the basis of colour or shape. It is very helpful in the thinking process.

Concept are mental categories for objects and events, which are similar to each other in one or in more than one way.