The aesthetic psychological structure contains basic elements such as perception, imagination, emotion, and understanding.
Perception includes simple sensations and more complex perceptions. The so-called feeling refers to the reflection of the individual attributes of things produced in the human brain when objective things directly act on people's sensory organs. Feeling is the basis of all cognitive activities and the psychological basis of aesthetic feelings. The so-called perception is a comprehensive and holistic grasp of things based on sensation. Perception has basic characteristics such as integrity, selectivity, and constancy. It is a more proactive psychological activity. Sensation and perception are collectively called perception. Feeling is the basis of perception, and perception is the depth of feeling.
Imagination refers to the process in which the human brain processes and transforms existing images to create new images. In psychology, imagination is divided into two categories: reproductive imagination and creative imagination. The so-called reconstructive imagination is that human beings reproduce the images of objective things in memory based on life experience; the so-called creative imagination is to process and combine memories on the basis of experience to create new images. In aesthetic psychology, there is both reconstructive imagination and creative imagination. In aesthetic activities, people always recreate the complete representation of the object obtained from feeling and perception through imaginative activities or create new images based on their own life experience. The richer the experience and the more knowledge and education one has behind him, the fuller the wings of imagination will be, and the stronger the aesthetic pleasure and enjoyment will be.
Emotion is a special form of human reflection of objective reality. It is a complex psychological response to whether objective things meet human needs. It is an attitude of the subject towards the object. Emotion plays an extremely important role in aesthetic psychology.
Aesthetic psychology is the unity of multiple psychological factors such as perception, imagination, emotion, and understanding. These psychological factors are not a mechanical addition, but an organic unity formed by emotion as a mediator.
Understanding is an indispensable part of aesthetics. This is because beautiful things not only have perceptual forms and vivid images, but also have inner essence and profound meaning. The understanding factors of aesthetic psychology mainly include: first, the understanding of the content of the aesthetic object cannot be separated from the understanding factor; secondly, the understanding of the form of the aesthetic object cannot be separated from the understanding factor;
Finally, and the most important First, the understanding of the inner connotation and significance of aesthetic objects cannot be separated from rational factors.