mental object


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Noun1.mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedmental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
cognitive content, content
cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
tradition - an inherited pattern of thought or action
object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
food for thought, intellectual nourishment, food - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
noumenon, thing-in-itself - the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
universe of discourse, universe - everything stated or assumed in a given discussion
matter, topic, issue, subject - some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
issue - an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"
idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, gist, kernel, nub, meat, core, sum, marrow, heart, center, centre - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
wisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
belief - any cognitive content held as true
unbelief, disbelief - a rejection of belief
heresy, unorthodoxy - a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
goal, end - the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"
education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education"
experience - the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
acculturation, culture - all the knowledge and values shared by a society
lore, traditional knowledge - knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend"
ignorance - the lack of knowledge or education
knowledge base, knowledge domain, domain - the content of a particular field of knowledge
metaknowledge - knowledge about knowledge
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In this sense, a story itself is not an independent mental object.
Emergentist View on Generative Narrative Cognition: Considering Principles of the Self-Organization of Mental Stories
To describe the mental object that is negated in narcissism but chosen by the healthy minded he coins the term 'Lifegiver'.
Does psychiatry need religion and spirituality in its treatment approach? Narcissism as an example
At a behavioral level, it has been shown that expert dancers do not perform better than novices at recognizing manipulation of abstract shapes in Mental Object Rotation Tasks.
Comparison of shape, space, and time judgments in expert dancers and novices: evidence that production enhances perception
Van der Walt and Long relate this behaviour to early infantile trauma with a mother who becomes internalised as a 'tyrannical' mental object that the person longs to merge with but simultaneously needs to flee from to escape psychic annihilation.
Editorial
According to Barrie's implicit theory, the shadow in Peter Pan is a mental object that helps perform a drama of attachment and separation and as such makes legible one's own psychological investments.
The shadow of the object in Peter Pan
In the first chapter of his 'Strategy, the indirect approach', Liddell Hart says: "More and more clearly has the fact emerged that a direct approach to one's mental object, or physical objective, along the 'line of natural expectation' for the opponent, has ever tended to, and usually produced negative results." Pakistan's quest to roll back the frontiers of intolerance, and reclaim Jinnah's legacy in order to succeed, and not just be a flash in the pan, must also take the path of least resistance.
Changing the way we think
Indeed, it seems to us that whereas the physical object, though only known by virtue of perception, is something externally invariable having reliably constant characteristics, the mental object must be thrown into potential uncertainty by such phenomena as subjectivity, scientific error and the possibility of added socio-cultural significances.
Introductory editorial no. 21
It tells us that a mental sign, or a mental meaning, is never an intrinsic property of a mental object. It is something that the mind can give to a mental object and that the mind can take away from it.
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This paper focuses in one of the two main objectives of the aforementioned research: To describe the mental object volume of the participant teachers.
Primary Teachers' Conceptions about the Concept of Volume: The Case of Volume-Measurable Objects
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