Modern culture has many unique features. Information technology is an important part of everyone's life and largely determine the contents of experience. We have access to a wealth of information, thanks to various devices, and the process was incredibly simple, basic.
But it is impossible not to notice that the information has certain qualities. First of all, it is mostly visual. The filing is further away from the text, thanks to rapidly developing computer graphics.
And if the effect of the predominance of visual information can have a minor effect on the people is, by definition, adults who grew up outside of the technology boom, the younger generation, whose thinking apparatus is in the active phase of formation, exposed to serious influence.
It is neither good nor bad, it is a feature of the era, and culture must evolve, one way or another, but our task, as psychologists, to understand the impact of the dominance of visual information on the process of development of thinking and its structure.
Kids games. the Game is an integral part of any child's development. This process, which includes appeal to the fantasies, the testing of various role models, the first social contacts with peers etc. the Game develops thanks to the work of imagination when the subsidiary objects of the game are figurines, blocks, sticks and other such toys. But children today spend a lot of time playing with your phone, tablet or computer.
the Problem of modern computer graphics, oddly enough, is that she's too good. Even video games of the 80-ies, 90-ies demanded of fantasy, because the characters run out of colored squares and the background was superimposed with an image. Current video games are very realistic. The game worlds do not leave to the imagination, offering only passive perception, despite the ability to control.
the Prevalence of modern video games in the leisure of the child may fail to develop the operations of abstraction, generalization, search, similarity, forming a specifically-shaped, narrow thinking.
Verbal and figurative representations. can Often hear how happy the mother claims that the child still does not speak, but has completely mastered control of the touch phone and spends a lot of time with him. The predominance of visual information raises the question of the meaning of the word in the structure of thinking.
By W. Bion [1] the process of the development of the mental apparatus consists of the formation and modification of alpha-elements — coherent structures in beta-elements in the head of an elected fact that determines the entire structure, gives it a name. Very often this fact is just a word. Words as carriers of meaning and its representatives, creating further linkages and relationships in the totality of the structures, give a thought to the unit "word" essence. This thinking operates information using words, which includes transmission, receipt, and modification of meaning.
But what if because of the dominance of visual information selected facts structures will become not words but images, and in the overwhelming majority?
an image thinking has the right to life, but eliminates the possibility of exchange, because it misses something important. The word belongs to at least two, it someone said and someone heard and is a product of exchange. The image loopback and for the most part not suitable for communication.
In an extreme case it is possible to obtain a picture, similar to clinical when the child can reflect their thoughts in the picture, but cannot Express. But such a situation is unlikely for the following reason: "chosen" words as a key element not only in the frequency of its occurrence, but in the fact that it comes from the significant other, what can be said about the image. However, a large number of visual sources of information in the live experience of the child may affect the level of vocabulary and ability to Express their thoughts.
the Expression of feelings and alexithymia. you do Not need to look far for examples of creative thinking. Enough to go to teen entertainment site or a similar group in the social. network Vkontakte. You are immediately struck by the large number of so-called "memes". This is usually an image that reflects any emotion or situation. A cursory inspection of public correspondence on such sites will immediately show you how these "memes" are used.
Teenagers have resorted to him when they need to Express any feeling. Instead of describing how they relate to a particular topic for discussion will be inserted suitable to their senses picture. You can also find an option for "that feeling when", which describes the situation, and not related to her feelings, and it is assumed that the recipients of the message have the same "the feeling that" to understand what is intended by the sender.
needless to say that such communication is full of misunderstandings and loss of important nuances of communication. There is some stereotyped feelings, the whole spectrum of emotions to the final set of prepared images.
of Course, in verbal communication we also put in different words, unique to each sense, but as mentioned earlier, words are a product of exchange, and that exchange is the common denominator of meaning. Trying to give the image the communicative property is not always successful, the image is rather mediates the interaction between people than brings them closer in the process of exchange.
Alexithymia, the inability to Express their feelings in words, is usually specified as a symptom that accompanies psychosomatic disorders. And in my opinion, the correlation of imagery and alexithymia occurs that requires, however, validation through appropriate research.
do I Need to do something? Is the predominance of visual information is detrimental, and resulting from this modification of thinking is undesirable, require further clarification.
it may well be that this situation is nothing more than a product of his era, a unique marker of contemporary culture.
Perhaps the excessive visual images kompensiruet at the stage of primary school through the school curriculum and teaching.
we Can say that the issue raised needs further investigation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Used books:
- W. R. Bion. "Learning through experience" (1962). M., Languages Of Slavic Culture, 2008.
the Original article on the author's website: http://rostov-analitik.ru/visual-information-i-mishlenie/
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