{"id":8818,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pretence\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:51","slug":"pretence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pretence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of objects in non-literal ways. &nbsp;It involves assertions that do not depend on being either true or false, and actions that do not depend upon being in factual accord with reality. &nbsp;You can assert that you are a pretend frog and be safe from being disproved by someone pointing out that you are not really and truly a frog. &nbsp;You can pretend that a jug has lemonade in it, and pretend to pour the non-existent liquid into an empty cup, whereupon you can pretend that the empty cup is now full and the empty jug is now empty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"fantasy_play\">Fantasy play<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_the_child-s_mind_-tom-\">Theory of the child&#8217;s mind (ToM)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of objects in non-literal ways. &nbsp;It involves assertions that do not depend on being either true or false, and actions that do not depend upon being in factual accord with reality. &nbsp;You can assert that you are a pretend frog and be safe from being disproved by someone pointing out that you are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pretence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretence&#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-8818","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\/8818","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=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}