It is customary to call imagination the creation of a new thing in the form of images, representations or ideas, generated by the needs of a person and which is one of the inherent features of a person.
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Step 1
Imagination is characterized by a pronounced focus on practical activity - the mode of action always precedes the action itself.
Step 2
The physiological basis of imagination is the creation of new combinations of already existing temporary connections and implies the joint work of both the first and second signaling systems. The word acts as a source of the appearance of the image and consolidates the emerging combinations of connections.
Step 3
Representing a certain detachment from reality, imagination is always based on it. Imagination creates an image of a concept about some object before the manifestation of the object itself. The very act of contemplating a separate concept, which has not received a logical design, but correlated with universal categories at the level of feelings, leads to the creation of an integral image of the situation.
Step 4
Psychology distinguishes between voluntary imagination, with a conscious solution of various kinds of problems with a clear understanding of the goal, and involuntary imagination, manifested in dreams. A dream is a special form of imagination aimed at the future and does not imply the obligatory receipt of a result or the identity of this result with the imaginary, but serves as a motivation for creative efforts.
Step 5
There are two types of imagination - active and passive. The active is characterized by an external orientation, relies on real-life events and time frames, and is controlled by the will of a person. The types of active imagination are:
- creative or artistic imagination, expressed in the individual creation of certain ideas or images;
- recreational imagination, manifested in the creation of new images based on verbal or visual stimulation;
- anticipatory imagination, which makes it possible to predict the development of certain events on the basis of existing experience.
Step 6
Passive imagination, subdivided into voluntary (dreams and dreams) and involuntary (hypnosis state), is determined by the internal characteristics of a person and is subjective. The main purpose of passive imagination is the satisfaction of some unfulfilled or unconscious needs and the repression of various kinds of affects.
