Mental pictures of the world

of images (and links between them) – visual representations of

the world, information about the relationship between man and reality, visual, and auditory, tactile and olfactory, images and information that are most often emotional.

in life of people, their beliefs, ideals, principles, knowledge and

activities, values ​​and spiritual guidance, and any significant changes picture of the world entail changes in the system of these elements.

and interpretation of events and phenomena;
is a basis, the foundation

world view, based on which a person acts in the world;
has historically conditional nature, which involves constantly changing picture of the world of all its stakeholders.

individual, and social or professional groups, and ethno-national or religious

community.
Picture of the world – cultural integrity, which includes three main components - outlook, mentality and attitude. These components are combined into a picture of the world specific to this age, ethnic group or subculture way.

of culture, man, his place in the world, relations with

the world and other people.
World View - a conceptual part, provided the general categories of space, time, movement, etc. The main major elements - frame picture of the world - are a set of basic principles or concepts, basic assumptions about the world or those parts of it that relate to the situation. They may not be realized by man, but integrated into the world picture, as are necessary for the interpretation of any situation, to determine the meaning and to assess what is happening.

of the different pictures of the world:
scale;
clarity;
emotional coloring;
light and darkness;
presence

of the past, present and future;
analytism and synthetism;
the special subject of the environment;
activity-passivity;
symbolism;
reflexivity;
saturation of interpersonal relationships;
conformity;
determinate world order;
the degree of overall development;
characteristics of a representative system.

set of concepts, generalizations or even pictures and images that

are on the way we perceive the world and act. Very often people do not realize how they refer to mental models, or how they influence on the behavior.

concepts, that form the conceptual system, that is constructed, modified

and updated continuously by him.
The term “picture of the world” appeared in 19 c. and its issues subsumed into the semiotics during the study of primary
modeling systems (languages) and nearline (myth,religion, folklore, poetry, film, painting, architecture).

the world: "Every civilization, social system characterized by its own

particular way of perceiving the world“.
(A. Gurevich).
It follows that the mentality of any linguistic-cultural community is due largely to picture of the world, which represent the world view.

respectively (up - down, right - left, east - west,

far away -
close), time (day - night, winter - summer), quantitative, ethical, and other parameters. Influence on it are formations of language, traditions, nature and landscape, education, training and
other social factors. Picture of the world may be holistic - these are mythological, religious, philosophical, physical
pictures of the world, but it may also reflect some fragments of the world, i.e. be local.

same,
because the human mind is equal. The national

language pictures of the world - just another of their "colorization."

significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or

scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses.

mental visualization that occurs while reading a book. When a

musician hears a song, he or she can sometimes "see" the song notes in their head, as well as hear them with all their tonal qualities. This is considered different from an after-effect, such as an after-image. Calling up an image in our minds can be a voluntary act, so it can be characterized as being under various degrees of conscious control.

of the world are represented in our minds as mental

images. These mental images can then be associated and compared with others, and can be used to synthesize completely new images. In this view, mental images allow us to form useful theories of how the world works by formulating likely sequences of mental images in our heads without having to directly experience that outcome. Whether other creatures have this capability is debatable.

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