What are the characteristics of concrete image thinking?

The concept of image is always associated with feelings and experiences, which is what is called image thinking in philosophy. Another philosophical concept that corresponds to figurative thinking, logical thinking, refers to the general process of knowing, in which there is more rational understanding than more use of feelings or experiences.

The so-called image thinking mainly refers to the thinking method formed when people make trade-offs about the appearance of things in the process of understanding the world, and it is a thinking method that only needs to use intuitive images to solve problems.

Image thinking is based on the perception and storage of the objective image system of image information transmission, combined with subjective cognition and emotion for identification (including aesthetic judgment and scientific judgment, etc.).

and use certain forms, means and tools (including literary language, painting lines, colors, sounds, rhythms, melodies, and operating tools, etc.).

A basic form of thinking for creating and describing images, both artistic and scientific.

Generally, thinking is based on the specific image or appearance of things and the association of appearances. This kind of thinking is evident in children aged 4 to 7 years. It is characterized by:

Thinking and actions changed from explicit to implicit, and preliminary abstract generalizations appeared. Intuitive action thinking is carried out through external, explicit intelligent actions, with the nature of "trial and error". With the accumulation of intuitive action thinking experience, the increasing development of appearances and the enrichment of language, children no longer rely on practical attempts again and again in solving problems, and begin to rely on the appearance of action conditions and action modes to think.

This means that the mind begins to detach itself from its explicit primitive state (intuitive action) and becomes an implicit mental activity within the brain.

It has a distinct concreteness and imagery. Although thinking has become an implicit mental activity, it is based on appearances, so thinking still has a distinct concreteness and imagery. Although concrete image thinking marks the beginning of the child's escape from the situation of synchronization with actions, the images or appearances on which this way of thinking relies are the mental reflections of things that are actually perceived and experienced, and are still conditioned by concrete actions and objective things.

The "self-centeredness" is obvious. Both intuitive action thinking and concrete image thinking are thinking based on one's own direct experience, so both have the characteristics of "self-centeredness". For example, children can correctly judge their own front and back, but cannot correctly judge the left and right hands of the opposite person.

Transitional. The transitional nature of concrete figurative thinking is determined by the duality of appearances. The intuitiveness of the appearance makes it similar to the thing itself and has a figurative nature; However, the generalization of the appearance makes it detached from reality, and has the characteristics of universality, which provides the possibility of development for abstract generalization.

The main characteristics of concrete image thinking are as follows:

1) Concreteness Imagery is the most basic characteristic of blind thinking. The object reflected by figurative thinking is the image of things, the form of thinking is the image of imagery, intuition, imagination and other figurative concepts, and the tools and means of expression are the graphics, images, schemas and figurative symbols that can be perceived by the senses. The figurative nature of image thinking makes it have the advantages of vividness, intuitiveness and integrity.

2) Self-centeredness.

3) Irreversibility.

4) Anthropomorphism.

5) Superficiality.

6) Action implicitness.

Concrete image thinking is carried out by relying on appearances, that is, relying on the association of specific images of things, and concrete image thinking is mainly manifested in the preschool stage.

Specific examples: Concrete image thinking is characterized by children's thinking at this time, mainly relying on the specific image or appearance of things and their interconnection, rather than relying on the understanding of the inner nature or relationship of things, relying on concepts, judgments and reasoning.

For example, when talking to a child about "someone's son", he thinks that the "son" must be a child, and if it is an adult with a long beard, it is incredible. Because the "son" he understands is his own image, he has not yet formed an abstract concept of the "son".

There is also a child in Congliang who cannot understand the abstract "1, 2, 3" when he is just learning mathematics, and can only recognize an apple, 2 dolls, 3 biscuits and ...... in front of himChildren may not be able to direct 2+3=?But if he was allowed to count his fingers, he knew that he had two fingers stretched out first, and then three fingers, for a total of five fingers.