Levels of awareness of a cognitive construct (based on the study of the PATRIOTISM concept)

Abstract

The level of awareness of the linguistic presentation of a cognitive construct consisting of the PATRIOTISM concept and a concept scenario with integrated conceptual features of the named concept serves as the subject of the study. The aim of the study is to determine the correctness of the linguistic presentation of the cognitive construct in accordance with its attribution to one of the developed levels of awareness of the linguistic presentation of the cognitive construct. The study is novel in that it is the first to propose a methodology for assessing the levels of awareness of the linguistic presentation of a cognitive construct excluding the subjectivity of researchers in interpreting the results obtained from the student respondents. In addition, the correlation dependence of the correctness of the language presentation between the concept and the concept-scenario is established. To do so, the correlation analysis method is used. The obtained results show that using the correlation analysis method makes it possible to distinguish the following levels of awareness: the level of zero awareness; the level of low awareness; the level of average awareness; the level of high awareness and the level of full awareness. The processed students’ responses to two tasks during the survey (n = 80) produced the following results reflecting the correctness of the linguistic presentation of the cognitive construct in accordance with the correlation dependence: out of 80 students, 31.25% answered according to the level of zero concept awareness; 68.75% demonstrated the low level of concept awareness. The remaining levels of concept awareness have not been identified.