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Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Decision making · Learning · Judgement · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Reasoning · Thinking - Cognitive processes Cognition - Outline Index
The term metarepresentation, is used synonymously with theory of mind, but is probably a better term as it implies the ability to ‘represent mental representations’. A metarepresentation is a representation of a representation: a higher-order representation with a lower-order representation embedded within it.[1] The higher-order representation is generally an utterance or a thought. Three main types of lower-order representation have been investigated: public representations, e.g. utterances; mental representations, e.g. thoughts; and abstract representations, e.g. sentences, propositions.[1] It can be applied to psycholinguistics, for example,
a. Mary said, "You are neglecting your job."
b. Mary said that I am neglecting my job.
c. Mary believes that I am neglecting my job.
d. Mary intends me to believe that I am neglecting my job.
e. Mary intends me to believe that she intends me to believe that I am neglecting my job.