Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity
A more nuanced perspective on cognition, behavior, personality, and pathology. Mind/brain. It is explained that mental activity is not possible without concepts/memory structures that exist in the brain and result from perceptual learning. Core mental activities including thinking, reasoning, and ju...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the study of the mind, mental activity and behavior
- The S-O-R model
- Mental processes are neuro-mental processes
- Judgments are processes of feature comparison: experimental evidence
- Generalization of the process of feature comparison: set theory, neural systems
- Conclusions on determinants of behavior and implications for psychiatry, clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
