AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does abstraction do?
A
The process of removing something unnecessary
B
Breaks something up to make it easier
C
The process of ignoring something unnecessary
D
Looking at a solution that repeats itself
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Abstraction (from the Latin abs, meaning away from and trahere, meaning to draw) is the process of taking away or removing characteristics from something in order to reduce it to a set of essential characteristics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abstraction allows us to create a general idea of what the problem is and how to solve it. The process instructs us to remove all specific detail and any patterns that will not help us solve our problem. This helps us form our idea of the problem. This idea is known as a ‘model’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Abstraction in coding and computer science is used to simplify strings of code into different functions. It hides the underlying complexity in a programming language, which makes it simpler to implement algorithms and communicate with digital tools.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abstraction is the general process of selective attention, of fixing upon certain aspects of an object while ignoring whatever other ones of which one happens to be aware. Induction for Aristotle, as I have said, extracts or selects something more primary from a group of things less so.

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