Concepts and transformational knowledge

A study was conducted to investigate the effect of exposure to principled change in concept formation. It is believed that transformational knowledge contributes to the coherence of a concept. Previous studies have concluded that inferences about what makes concepts coherent begins at an early age and that internal mechanisms are responsible for this outcome. Four experiments were conducted on concept formation. Findings indicated that exposure to the successive changes of an object facilitates the gluing of those states into a dingle concept.