{"id":7198,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/abstractions\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:55:08","slug":"abstractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/abstractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=kurt_fischer\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=kurt_fischer?target=_self\">Kurt Fischer<\/a>&#8221;s neo-Piagetian skill theory, they constitute the fourth and final tier of skill development. \u00a0Abstractions represent generalised or intangible content and stand in contrast to concrete representations, which refer to things that are tangible, concrete and able to be imaged or imitated.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"neo-piagetian_theories_of_cognitive_development\">Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"tiers\">Tiers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/Abstractions\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Representations (mental)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kurt Fischer&#8221;s neo-Piagetian skill theory, they constitute the fourth and final tier of skill development. \u00a0Abstractions represent generalised or intangible content and stand in contrast to concrete representations, which refer to things that are tangible, concrete and able to be imaged or imitated. See Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development, Tiers, Representations (mental)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}