There was no difference in concreteness ratings between cognate and noncognate items.
In Experiment 1, children with low prior knowledge received instruction in one of four conditions: (a) concrete, (b) abstract, (c) concreteness fading, or (d) concreteness introduction.
Recent research particularly stresses a sequence of fading from concrete into abstract (also called "concreteness fading," Goldstone and Son 2005).
According to the new actualist, these contingently nonconcrete objects have been overlooked because (1) no one has correctly drawn the proper distinction between contingently nonconcrete and necessarily nonconcrete objects, and (2) everyone has assumed that concreteness was an essential property of concrete objects (see below).
Based upon the MRC Psycholingusitic Database [59], the concrete, abstract, and ambiguous words had concreteness ratings of 605, 351, and 464, respectively.
There's no magic to it, but it does bring rigor and concreteness to an otherwise abstract challenge.
Concreteness training involved repeated mental exercises designed to encourage more concrete and specific thinking about emotional events.
There was a concreteness effect in terms of faster speed of response for concrete words compared to abstract words.
It recovers its simplest function and is again an instrument serving a purpose; no one doubts that the language must name reality, which exists objectively, massive, tangible, and terrifying in its concreteness".
They begin with Hemingway's rejection, in "A Farewell to Arms," of the high, old language, his insistence on concreteness: "I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
