AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -To regard an abstract concept as if it were a real, concrete thing is called: reification.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reification is when you think of or treat something abstract as a physical thing. Reification is a complex idea for when you treat something immaterial-like happiness, fear, or evil-as a material thing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reification is here defined as the habit of creating entities out of human activities. This habit all too often leads to circular reasoning, the entities thus created acquiring an ontological status as structures which allegedly underlie, and thus cause, the activities from which they were generated in the first place.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity.

Detailed explanation-5: -Reification can refer to either a person’s tendency to ascribe a definitive value or form to an abstract concept or to the brain’s tendency to fill gaps in visual information. There are two principle types of reification: the fallacy in concrete thinking and the Gestalt effect.