Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
Mind/brain.
It is explained that mental activity is not possible withoutconcepts/memory structures that exist in the brain and result from perceptuallearning. Core...
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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 zu „Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity “
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Otto Buxbaum
Otto Buxbaum, born1942 in Vienna, Austria. Studies in psychology, anthropology and philosophy(1966-1972, Vienna). Dissertation: Über den Ausdruck vonSprachlauten (About the expressionof speech sounds). 1972-1983 Assistant at the Institute of Psychology,University of Graz. Habilitation in 1982 (Habilitationsschrift:Kognitionspsychologische Analysen von Kategorisierungsvorgängen) (Thesis: Cognitive analysis of categorizationprocesses). Since then private lecturer. Many years of research on personalitytheories, person perception and psychiatric-psychological assessment, more andmore with reference to human information processing and neuroscience. Thecurrent work comprises three studies. These are "NeuesWissen über Grundfragen der Psychiatrie" (New knowledge about basic questions of psychiatry) published bySpringer 2015, the planned book and "Neues Wissen übergrundlegende pädagogisch-psychologische Begriffe" (New knowledge about basic pedagogical-psychological concepts)submitted for publication. He is currently researching on the coordination offundamental scientific concepts of psychiatry, psychology and pedagogy.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Otto Buxbaum
- 2016, 1st ed. 2016, X, 104 Seiten, 1 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319294660
- ISBN-13: 9783319294667
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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