What is Appearance? What does representation mean and what is representation

A comprehensive review of the manifestations is as follows:

1. The concept of appearance: Appearance refers to the image of things formed by people when things are not in front of them, and from the point of view of information processing, it is people's psychological representation of things that do not exist at present.

2. Classification of appearances: (1) According to the different senses of appearance, it is divided into: auditory appearance, visual performance, tactile appearance, etc. (2) According to the different degree of processing, it is divided into memory appearance and imagination appearance.

Memory appearance: refers to the image of objective things maintained in memory; Imaginary appearance: refers to a new image formed after processing and transforming objective things on the basis of memorizing appearances.

3. Characteristics of appearance: (1) Intuitiveness: Appearance is directly observable, visible, and approximate in our minds; (2) Generalization:

Appearance is a rough summary of some things, which summarizes the common attributes of a class of things, makes the appearance vivid and concrete, and has a complete and reasonable meaning. (3) Maneuverability: The rotation experiment on the letters shows that the appearance can be manipulated, and people can enlarge, shrink, scan, decompose and so on on the formed appearance in their minds, and the time of people's mental rotation of the appearance and the actual rotation operation are the same.

Fourth, we can form imagination by processing and transforming the appearance, and the so-called imagination is: the process of processing and transforming the existing objective image in our minds to form a new image is imagination. Appearance is the basis of imagination, providing material for imagination, imagination is inseparable from appearance, imagination has the following functions:

1) Foresight: On the basis of imagination, we can meet things that have not happened, for example according to weather forecasts.

can imagine what you should wear tomorrow; (2) The function of supplementing knowledge and experience: for example, we have a view of prehistoric humans.

Life is curious about the unknown, then we can imagine distant human ancestors according to historical records.

life; (3) Alternative functions: some experiences that we have not personally summarized, but we can replace them with the experience of our predecessors; (4) Adjustment function, good imagination makes us happy.

To sum up, from the definition, types, characteristics and further processing and transformation of appearances, we can comprehensively and concretely define the concept of "appearance".

1. Appearance refers to the perceptual image formed in the mind based on perception. Includes memory representations and imaginary representations. The former refers to the image of a perceived thing that is not in front of you but is reproduced in the mind of the stirring mind.

The latter refers to a new image formed by a certain processing and transformation of perceptual images or memory representations.

2. The appearance is intuitive, but it is not as clear, complete and stable as the perceptual image. It has a certain generalization, and is an intermediate link from perception to thinking. According to the different sensory channels dominated by the appearance when it is formed, it can be divided into visual appearance, auditory appearance, Mingwu movement appearance, olfactory appearance, taste appearance, tactile appearance, etc.