Sentence examples for folk model from inspiring English sources

That's part of our folk model of the mind: that belief comes first.

For students to understand how homology can provide useful information, it is important to design lessons that bridge the gap from the folk model of "like goes with like" to one that shows the application of scientific inquiry.

Community can also be understood as a cultural ideal or "folk model" that contrasts with the existential reality of isolation and fragmentation [ 13].

Table  3 provides a summary of the research findings, alongside their implications for the design of screening and treatment services.> Our findings confirm previous research on the confusion regarding the differences between the types of viral hepatitis [ 36], along with a folk model that the hepatitis A, B and C viruses are interconnected and progressive in their severity [ 22, 37].

They built on European folk models: painted chairs, tables and chests, for example, or the lavishly decorated religious texts and birth and wedding certificates, called frakturs, that are another of the Esmerian gift's strong suits.

What this suggests is that (female) sexuality is as much a cultural construct as ideas about sex and gender and we need to revisit some of the received wisdom of western folk models of (female) sexual pleasure.

Quite evidently, this is an ideal situation where Atran and Medin can study folk models.

Gudrun Dahl, "Mats and Milk Pots: the Domain of Borana Women," in The Creative Communion: African Folk Models of Fertility and the Regeneration of Life, edited by Anita Jacobson-Widding and Walter van Beek (Uppsala, Sweden: Acad. Upsaliensis, 1990), 134 135.

In this paper we report the findings of a qualitative study that explored knowledge, perceptions and folk models of hepatitis B and C in a number of high-risk immigrant communities in the UK.

We explored the health beliefs, knowledge and folk models of hepatitis B and C in community members and their responses to a proposal for hepatitis screening and treatment in primary care.

Whilst we found differences in understanding and folk models of viral hepatitis between the community groups, this study was specifically oriented to informing the design of a standardised intervention to be rolled out in a multi-ethnic community locally (and, we anticipate, nationally).