Fragmentation in psychology is one of the properties of representations, that is, one of the ways of mentally recreating images in the head. When a person imagines an object or phenomenon, he manages to reproduce individual parts, and not the entire object.
Examples of fragmentation
Let's say a person once read a literary work. He has a fragmentary idea about it, since some parts and aspects 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 the visual images of the faces of people close to us. We often remember individual facial features, but no matter how hard we try, we can’t imagine the whole portrait.
And the more attractive and significant the object had earlier, the more complete the image of the presentation will be.
Why is fragmented thinking dangerous?
Fragmentation is the problem of thinking in our society. Increasingly, in most situations, a person thinks in fragmentary images. But there are no relationships between model fragments, whichleads to an incomplete or distorted view of the object as a whole.
Fragmentation is what makes our consciousness clogged with extraneous informational garbage that has no practical value in our life. 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 connections that we often lack for a complete 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 the increase in figurative information (videos and pictures on the Internet, television, etc.), when most of it is perceived through vivid plots and images.
