{"id":8950,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/representation_-mental\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:17","slug":"representation_-mental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/representation_-mental\/","title":{"rendered":"Representation (mental)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The capacity to make one thing stand for something else. &nbsp;Representations consist of a symbolic vehicle and a referent. &nbsp;The symbolic vehicle is that which does the representing (e.g., a word, an image, a picture). &nbsp;The referent consists of that which is represented (e.g., an event, a meaning, an object) in the real or imagined world. &nbsp;2. in Kurt Fischer&#8217;s skill theory, the third tier of skill development in which children gain the capacity to construct concrete meanings using signs and symbols. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ilabs.washington.edu\/meltzoff\/pdf\/98Meltzoff_Moore_IB&amp;D.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/ilabs.washington.edu\/meltzoff\/pdf\/98Meltzoff_Moore_IB&amp;D.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another developmental approach<\/a> casts the architecture and functioning of &nbsp;a representational system in the context of object identity. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"abstractions\">Abstractions<\/a>, <a href=\"category_learning\">Category learning<\/a>, <a href=\"common_coding\">Common coding<\/a>, <a href=\"direct_realist_account\">Direct realist account<\/a>, <a href=\"distributed_representation\">Distributed representation<\/a>, <a href=\"domain_specificity\">Domain specificity<\/a>, <a href=\"homunculus\">Homunculus<\/a>, <a href=\"mental_image\">Mental image<\/a>, Moderate-discrepnacy hypothesis, <a href=\"object_identity\">Object identity<\/a>, <a href=\"phonological_pathway\">Phonological pathway<\/a>, <a href=\"representation_-cultural-\">Representation (cultural)<\/a>, <a href=\"representational_re-description\">Representational re-description<\/a>, <a href=\"symbols\">Symbols<\/a>, <a href=\"topographical_representation\">Topographical representation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The capacity to make one thing stand for something else. &nbsp;Representations consist of a symbolic vehicle and a referent. &nbsp;The symbolic vehicle is that which does the representing (e.g., a word, an image, a picture). &nbsp;The referent consists of that which is represented (e.g., an event, a meaning, an object) in the real or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/representation_-mental\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Representation (mental)&#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-8950","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\/8950","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=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}