Metarepresent
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To represent one's mental state as an emotion, memory etc.
"The assumption was that one cannot properly monitor and control one’s own cognitive activity unless one is able to reflectively represent that one has first-order mental states, that is, unless one can metarepresent them as perceptions, memories, judgments, and so forth with specific contents [4 ][5 ]."
Example
More examples"The assumption was that one cannot properly monitor and control one’s own cognitive activity unless one is able to reflectively represent that one has first-order mental states, that is, unless one can metarepresent them as perceptions, memories, judgments, and so forth with specific contents [4 ][5 ]."
Etymology
From meta- + represent.
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