Mechanism of concept formation

Abstract

It is my principal purpose in this article to consider how we can get true, scientific concepts and what the determining element in concept formation is.
As everybody knows, the process of concept formation should be treated in whole thinking processes, and 'thinking' or 'thinking process' is the very core of mental activities based on our physiological structure and its function.
From the viewpoint above mentioned, I attend to the process of conditioned reflex formation to seek whether so-called 'association'; the mechanism of conditioned reflex, may also be affectively applied to these mental processes, then to some psychological inquiries, in which there are valuable experimental researches for 'concept formation', especially performed by Hanfmann & Kasanin and Vygotsky. Particularly, I owe much of my concluding remarks to Vygotsky, in spite of his some haults on methodology.
My conclusion in this study is : Concept formation would be reduced not only to 'association' of psychological elements, but also the mechanism of concept formation might rather be found in our functional use of words as the symbol.