{"id":8610,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/object_identity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:35","slug":"object_identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/object_identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Object identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to perceive an object as the same object despite a gap in perceiving it, such as being able to identify an object as the same entity although it passes behind a screen on part of its trajectory. &nbsp;Movement on a constant trajectory is one cue that may be used to infer identity. &nbsp;Identity does not imply permanence, since attribution of identity does not include any assumptions regarding continuity of existence.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"numerical_identity\">Numerical identity<\/a>, <a href=\"object_permanence\">Object permanence<\/a>, <a href=\"object_segregation\">Object segregation<\/a>, <a href=\"search_errors_in_infancy\">Search errors in infancy<\/a>, <a href=\"two_visual_systems_hypothesis\">Two visual systems hypothesis<\/a>, Violation of expectancy technique <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to perceive an object as the same object despite a gap in perceiving it, such as being able to identify an object as the same entity although it passes behind a screen on part of its trajectory. &nbsp;Movement on a constant trajectory is one cue that may be used to infer identity. &nbsp;Identity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/object_identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Object identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}