| Accommodation | Label used by Piaget to describe the process used by learners to understand something when new schema must be created.
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| Assimilation | Label used by Piaget to describe the process used by learners to understand something new by adapting it to existing schema.
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| Concept | Way of organizing knowledge and experiences in categories within which items have common attributes.
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| Concept attainment | An inductive approach to teaching concepts by which students derive the meaning and attributes of a concept from examples and nonexamples of the concept given by the teacher.
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| Concept teaching | Approach to teaching in which the emphasis is on helping students learn how to make and label categories of ideas, objects, and experiences.
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| Conjunctive concept | A concept that has a constant rule structure.
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| Critical attribute | Feature of a concept that distinguishes it from all other concepts.
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| Direct presentation | One of several approaches to concept teaching.
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| Disjunctive concept | A concept that contains alternative sets of attributes.
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| Graphic organizers | A visual image presented to students to provide structure for new information about to be presented. Similar to advance organizer.
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| Noncritical attributes | Features found in some members of a category but not in all members.
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| Relational concept | A concept whose rule structure depends on its relationship to other concepts.
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