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abstract attitude
*source: Encyclopedia.comA Dictionary of Psychology | Date: 2001
abstract attitude n. A term introduced by the German psychiatrist Kurt Goldstein (1878–1965) to denote the ability to use conceptual categories in order to classify things according to their attributes and to think symbolically rather than concretely. This ability is impaired in many forms of brain damage and mental disorder. Also called categorical attitude.
Abstraction is one of the ways in which our finite brains can cope with the threat of overload from the infinite amount of data present in the universe. In addition, Abstraction is a core concept of Object-Oriented Programming.
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