Concept learning, also called category learning, concept attainment or concept formation, was defined by Jerome Bruner, Jacqueline Goodnow and George Austin in their 1956 book A Study of Thinking as the search for and testing of the attributes that distinguish examples of a category from non-examples. Concepts function as mental categories that let a person classify objects, events or ideas by their shared relevant features, and concept learning involves comparing and contrasting groups that share concept-relevant features against groups that lack them. Bruner's definition emphasizes a systematic process of searching for and testing distinguishing features, setting concept learning apart from simple memorization or plain discrimination between individual items.
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Core ClaimConcept learning is the search for and testing of attributes that distinguish members of a category from non-members, so a learner can correctly classify new instances under the concept. 2 Classification
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Concept learning, also known as category learning, concept attainment, and concept formation, is defined by Bruner, Goodnow, & Austin (1956) as "the search for and testing of attributes that can be used to distinguish exemplars from non exemplars of various categories".
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