spontaneous concept

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is a concept that a person forms spontanously without mediation by another – so such concepts may be idiosyncratic and infrormal (indeed, they can be implicit)

 

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.