REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does representational process mean? 

• REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESS (noun)
  The noun REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else

  Familiarity information: REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESS (noun)

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Meaning:

Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("representational process" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "representational process"):

symbol; symbolic representation; symbolisation; symbolization (something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible)

exemplification; typification (a representational or typifying form or model)

depicting; depiction; portrayal; portraying (a representation by picture or portraiture)

anthropomorphism; theanthropism (the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits)

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)