CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A representational ToM refers to the view that beliefs and desires are representations of the real world and that these representations mediate our actions in the world. Our beliefs about the world can be either true or false and our intentions and desires can be either fulfilled or unfulfilled.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most people can readily conjure images inside their head-known as their mind’s eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images.

Detailed explanation-3: -hyperphantasia (uncountable) (psychology, pathology) A condition where one’s mental imagery (the mind’s eye) is extremely realistic, to the point of confusion with reality. quotations ▼antonym ▲ Antonym: aphantasia.

Detailed explanation-4: -We use the term ‘mental imagery’ to refer to representations and the accompanying experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus. Such representations are recalled from memory and lead one to re-experience a version of the original stimulus or some novel combination of stimuli.