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.

List 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.

Product details

• Authors: Otto Buxbaum
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2016
• EAN: 9783319294667
• ISBN: 978-3-31-929466-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 243 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Illustrations: X, 104 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; 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