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 withoutconcepts/memory structures that exist in the brain and result from perceptuallearning. Core mental activities including thinking, reasoning, and judgmentare described as components of self-regulation and in terms of interactingneural systems.

This framework also leads to a more specific and lessstigmatizing system for classifying and diagnosing mental illnesses.

This concise volume: 

Introduces the S-O-R (stimulus-organism-response) model of mental activity.
• Recasts mental processes as neuro-mental processes.
• Provides empirical evidence for the neural basis for judgments.
• Addresses ongoing mind/brain questions such as whether thinking is unconscious.

Key Insights into Basic of Mental Activity will interest scientists doingresearch in psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, human biology/anthropology,linguistics, and neuroscience. Professors, lecturers, and instructors will findit important as a class text in these fields. And the book's clinicalimplications make it useful to practitioners of psychology, psychiatry, andpsychotherapy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Otto Buxbaum
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.04.2016
• EAN: 9783319294667
• ISBN: 978-3-31-929466-7
• Seiten: 104
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 243 mm x 13 mm
• Gewicht: 292 g
• Illustration: X, 104 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Theoretische Psychologie; Psychologie: Emotionen, B, Emotion, memory, Cortex, Psychology: emotions, Emotions, Concept, decision-making, Behavioral Science and Psychology, cognitive psychology, Determinism, Social Cognition, Computational Neuroscience, cognitive algebra, mind-brain problem, perceptual learning, mental activity