{"id":7557,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/concept\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:10","slug":"concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An abstract idea inferred or derived from particular instances (e.g., cognition, temperament). &nbsp;Concepts can also represent physical objects such as a table and chair as well as their relationships. &nbsp;They serve to relate facts to theories and propositions, and in this way can become variables. &nbsp;A concept, however, is more encompassing than a variable. &nbsp;So, for example, status and role are concepts, while ranking status according to social class is a variable.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"construct\">Construct<\/a>, <a href=\"foundational_knowledge\">Foundational knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"pragmatism\">Pragmatism<\/a>, Variable<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An abstract idea inferred or derived from particular instances (e.g., cognition, temperament). &nbsp;Concepts can also represent physical objects such as a table and chair as well as their relationships. &nbsp;They serve to relate facts to theories and propositions, and in this way can become variables. &nbsp;A concept, however, is more encompassing than a variable. &nbsp;So, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/concept\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Concept&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}