Representational Process (Noun)
Meaning
Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The linguist studied the representational processes involved in the formation of metaphors to understand how one concept can represent another.
- Symbolic reasoning requires a sophisticated representational process that enables the manipulation of abstract tokens to represent complex ideas.
- The artist's use of color was a deliberate representational process that reflected her emotional state at the time of painting.
- In this philosophy, perception is seen as a representational process where the brain constructs a representation of the external world based on sensory data.
- Understanding the representational processes involved in language acquisition is essential to developing effective language teaching methods.