Hayakawa's Abstraction Ladder

The child's ability to gain abstract thinking is not just about his cerebral development. The community and cultural environment within it also affect the child's cognitive development.

In other words, in the ability to give abstract thinking skills to parents, educators, those who are in contact with young people a lot of work. For example, in schools, giving more abstract content, brainstorming, creating philosophical discussion environments, addressing an event from different angles will give you the opportunity to use and develop this thinking system, which they have just started to develop.

Of course, this period shows individual differences, without thinking that each young person is not at the same level of development without missing the support of concrete material. Because no educator tries to give abstract skills to a group, he does not want a group to be completely distant from the subject.

There are tests applied to determine the levels of abstract thinking skills among students. One of them is the scientific thinking skills test consisting of 12 open-ended questions developed by Lawson. Teachers form the training strategy according to the results of this test. Again, some educators are referring to the psychologist Hayakawa's Abstraction Ladder to teach abstraction in verbal communication. The concepts in the abstraction ladder are expressed in the most basic form in the lower step, while in the top step they are defined with a wider angle and each layer.

Educators know what steps the young person, how to ask him determine the question. For example, a history teacher can ask the student who can think in concrete about a single event and its outcome in history, and he can ask his abstract thinking student to compare two different phenomena.

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