Assignment:  Thoughts & Beliefs.

Assignment:  Thoughts & Beliefs.

Assignment:  Thoughts & Beliefs.

Week 8 – Assignment 2 Assignment 2: Practicum I Journal Entry 5 This is your fifth out of six journal assignments in this course. Write a 300–500-word journal entry covering the following: Identify two or three goals for this week that you have established for yourself related to Practicum I. Review and reflect on how you met these goals this week. Explain how you integrated two concepts or content areas from Week 8 into your practicum experience this week. Identify your area of greatest learning this week. Submit your journal entry to the Journal area by Tuesday, October 24, 2017. Name your journal entry SU_NSG6620_W8_A2_LastName_FirstInitial

Concepts are defined as abstract ideas or general notions that occur in the mind, in speech, or in thought. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of and . They play an important role in all aspects of . As such, concepts are studied by several disciplines, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and these disciplines are interested in the logical and psychological structure of concepts, and how they are put together to form thoughts and sentences. The study of concepts has served as an important flagship of an emerging interdisciplinary approach called cognitive science.

In , there are at least three prevailing ways to understand what a concept is:

• Concepts as , where concepts are entities that exist in the mind (mental objects)
• Concepts as , where concepts are abilities peculiar to cognitive agents (mental states)
• Concepts as  senses (see ), where concepts are , as opposed to mental objects and mental states

Concepts can be organized into a hierarchy, higher levels of which are termed “superordinate” and lower levels termed “subordinate”. Additionally, there is the “basic” or “middle” level at which people will most readily categorize a concept. For example, a basic-level concept would be “chair”, with its superordinate, “furniture”, and its subordinate, “easy chair”

A concept is  by all of its actual or potential instances, whether these are things in the real world or other .

Concepts are studied as components of human cognition in the  disciplines of ,  and, , where an ongoing debate asks whether all cognition must occur through concepts. Concepts are used as formal tools or models in , ,  and  where they are sometimes called ,  or . In  use the word concept often just means any .