Abstraction involves three processes: Figure-ground Discrimination, and Short and Long Term Memory.
Hence there is nothing to compare, and the one shoe becomes the total concept and exclusive meaning for the word “shoe.”
Abstraction involves three sub processes, which we have come across before in our discussions: They are Figure-ground discrimination, Short-term Memory and Long Term Memory.
FIGURE-GROUND: In figure-ground discrimination, as we discussed earlier, part of the input becomes our focus, and the remaining is relatively ignored.
If one glances at a shoe, for example, he may note that it has a heel. In this case, the heel has become the figure, and the remaining part of the shoe is the ground.
In this figure-ground task, for the purposes of abstraction, there are three particular elements that must be considered.
- 1. The observer must be aware of the figure.
That seems obvious enough.