Conceptual Structuring & Schemas

Primes that build, group, and reshape mental structures: chunking and clustering items into units, schemas and conceptual blending, the divergence-convergence rhythm of design, futures literacy and the zone of proximal development, and the drift that erodes a learned category over time.

8 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Chunking — mixed-structural · crowded
• Clustering — — · crowded
• Concept Drift — — · crowded
• Conceptual Blending — mixed-structural · mid
• Divergence-Convergence in the Design Process — mixed-framed · distinctive
• Futures Literacy — mixed-framed · mid
• Schema — mixed-structural · distinctive
• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) — mixed-framed · distinctive