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Concept Formation

"Concept Formation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, aspects, and relations of objects.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Concept Formation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Concept Formation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2010
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