{"id":9217,"date":"2019-05-22T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/symbols\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:16:12","slug":"symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A type of signifier or representational vehicle. &nbsp;In Piagetian theory, symbols include such representations as images, pictures, gestures and the use of objects or movements to represent meanings. &nbsp;In contrast to signs (words), symbolic meanings are more personal, less generative, and are more likely to resemble their referents in some way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"collective_agency\">Collective agency<\/a>, <a href=\"communication\">Communication<\/a>, <a href=\"culture\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"mutual_gaze\">Mutual gaze<\/a>, Signs, <a href=\"symbolic_function\">Symbolic function<\/a>, <a href=\"representation_-mental-\">Representation (mental)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A type of signifier or representational vehicle. &nbsp;In Piagetian theory, symbols include such representations as images, pictures, gestures and the use of objects or movements to represent meanings. &nbsp;In contrast to signs (words), symbolic meanings are more personal, less generative, and are more likely to resemble their referents in some way.&nbsp; See Collective agency, Communication, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/symbols\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Symbols&#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-9217","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\/9217","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=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}