preconception

Preposition: about

• nature: Along the way, he dismantles a number of widely-held, but disabling preconceptions about the nature of street gangs.
• disability: Employer preconceptions about both disability and age are deep rooted.
• role: This is also where preconceptions about work roles can also be tackled.

Converse of object

• challenge: There's no pretense here to be creating new concepts or challenging any preconceptions.
• avoid: Publishing intervisibility data for all the monuments in this way clearly avoids any preconceptions on the part of the authors and empowers the viewer.
• have: I try not to have any preconceptions about what I might find.
• abandon: Abandon preconceptions The outline brief you prepare for them is vital here.
• hold: The system uses constructivist learning principles to discover the preconceptions held by teachers about fundamental electrical principles.

Adjective modifier

• challenging: I want to make a difference, play my part in changing attitudes and challenging preconceptions.
• negative: Yet mutual misunderstandings and negative preconceptions remain to be overcome.
• theoretical: Theoretical preconceptions used in qualitative analysis often do not represent explicit propositions about empirical facts.
• cultural: Freddie now works with knitted textiles, finding this a powerful medium for self-expression and communication because of the cultural preconceptions surrounding the area.
• own: I think people had their own preconceptions of what Kylie should sound like.
• popular: Pigs were similarly found to have a cerebral capacity beyond the popular preconception of a farm animal.

Modifies a noun

• care: The preconception care differed between studies, for example in terms of contraceptive, dietary and insulin advice.

Noun used with modifier

• challenge: You may need to expand understanding of learning and challenge preconceptions both internally and externally.
• student: This is further compounded by student preconceptions of the subject.

Possessives

• people: He uses lots of emotive language to try to achieve his goal of changing people's preconceptions about the subject of immigration.
• student: The lesson once again begins with a collating of students ' preconceptions about Africa.
• trainee: Starting the course exploring trainees ' own preconceptions about teaching.