It is suggested that earlier criticism of the Goldsteirt-Scheerer Tests of Abstract and Concrete Thinking was based on an incorrect conceptualization of abstract and concrete thinking; and that, while ‘abstract’ thinking is a conjunctive concept, ‘concrete’ thinking is a disjunctive concept.
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