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(categorical attitude) A type of cognitive functioning that includes assuming a mental set
voluntarily; shifting voluntarily from a specific aspect of a situation to the
general; keeping in mind simultaneously various aspects of a situation; grasping
the essentials of a whole, and breaking it into its parts and isolating them
voluntarily; planning ahead ideationally; and/or thinking or performing
symbolically. A characteristic of many psychiatric disorders is the person’s
inability to assume the abstract attitude or to shift readily from the concrete
to the abstract and back again as demanded by circumstances.
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