Fragmentation in psychology is one of the properties of ideas, that is, one of the ways to mentally recreate images in the head. When a person imagines any object or phenomenon, he manages to reproduce individual parts, and not the entire object.
Fragmentation Examples
Suppose a person once read a literary work. He has a fragmentary view of him, since some parts and sides of the work will not be presented, and the image of this work will be perceived by a person in a generalized way.
The same situation with visual images of faces of people close to us. We often remember individual facial features, but no matter how hard we try, the whole portrait cannot be presented to us.
And the more attractive and significant the object had before, the more complete the image will be.
What is the danger of fragmented thinking?
Fragmentation is a problem of thinking in our society. Increasingly, in most situations, a person thinks in fragmentary images. But there are no relationships between fragments of models, which leads to an incomplete or distorted idea of the object as a whole.
Fragmentation is what makes our consciousness clogged with extraneous informational garbage, which has no practical value in our lives. When a lot of fragmentary structures accumulate, it seems to us that we are becoming smarter, but we do not take into account that there is no relationship between them. And it is precisely these ties that we often do not have enough to complete the picture, for a complete analysis of the situation and truthful information about the world order. This prevents us from making the right decisions, because we don’t have enough information.
The transition to this type of thinking occurs due to an increase in figurative information (videos and pictures on the Internet, television, etc.), when most are perceived through vivid plots and images.