The phrase "abstract abilities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing skills or competencies that are not concrete or tangible, often related to cognitive or theoretical aspects.
Example: "In the realm of education, students are encouraged to develop their abstract abilities to enhance problem-solving and critical thinking skills."
Alternatives: "conceptual skills" or "theoretical capabilities".
Controversy exists over whether children can be said to differ in a unitary abstract ability called intelligence or whether each child might better be described as possessing a set of specific cognitive abilities.
In other words, it was schooling, or "schooled literacy," that prior to the last couple of decades that gave us the sense that literacy was just about the abstract ability to read and write, a unitary thing.
Graphical abstract Ability of humic based edaphic biostimulants to improve the efficiency of rock phosphate derived fertilizers.
"We wanted to create a way to test the abstract ability to handle lots of information quickly," says lead author Susan Joslyn, a psychologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Exaptations come in many flavors from an abstract ability, as proposed by Tattersall, to a physical structure (e.g., a flight feather).
This study proposes the cloud-based disassembly that abstracts ability of the disassembly factory as the disassembly resource, the disassembly resource is then able to be allocated to execute disassembly tasks.
Moreover, perceptual speed, like working memory, is considered a component of the broader domain of executive function, which includes higher-level cognitive processing and abstract reasoning abilities that support the ability to wait for a delayed reward.
Using the cognitive development framework of Piaget (Inhelder and Piaget 1958) as a context for determining children's abstract thinking abilities, researchers contend that young children have constrained abilities to think scientifically (Kuhn 1989; Marini and Case 1994).
In one study, 400 psychology students took intelligence tests that measured abstract reasoning abilities and verbal intelligence.
*** We found that there are some areas that boys with DMD are consistently strong in, including nonverbal skills, abstract reasoning abilities, rote memory and vocabulary comprehension.
