abstract ability

They begin by challenging the current opinion that all peoples share basic functions of the mind such as logical and abstract abilities.

"No impairment of physiological, sensory and perceptual-motor performance, tests of concept formation, abstracting ability, and cognitive style and test of memory."

Indeed, much 'practical' scientific learning in a western education system takes place in a laboratory where students imitate, learn concrete activities and at the same time are assumed to be developing logical and abstracting abilities.

The licensed drivers had higher abstract ability, more emotional stability, more highly developed consciences, more boldness, more self-assurance, more tough-mindedness, more resistance to emotional stress, more creativity and higher leadership potential.

No Physiological Deterioration Marilyn Bowman, in a battery of psychological tests on chronic cannabis users in Jamaica in 1972, found "no impairment of physiological, sensory and perceptual-motor performance, tests of concept formation, abstracting ability and cognitive style and tests of memory."