Thus, a refined assessment of concreteness may show stronger relationships with self-reported rumination and with psychopathology.
Third, other measures of concreteness may have shown stronger relationships with self-reported rumination and symptom measures.
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).
So, the traditional account accommodates the idea that theories can stipulatively introduce new terms, but it imposes a strong demand: the theories must be admissible.[12] Consider, for concreteness, the special case of classical first-order languages.
Although reduced concreteness might help to avoid aversive imagery or strong emotions in the short term, it is thought to maintain recurrent thinking because it is less likely than concrete thinking to produce a specific conclusion and a suitable problem solution, and because it inhibits emotional processing.
They differ from concrete words and abstract words in concreteness, imageability, and context availability (Altarriba and Bauer 2004).
Based upon the MRC Psycholingusitic Database [59], the concrete, abstract, and ambiguous words had concreteness ratings of 605, 351, and 464, respectively.
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.
