Key Insights Into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity

By Otto Buxbaum

Book Overview

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 judgment are described as components of self-regulation and in terms of interacting neural systems.

This framework also leads to a more specific and less stigmatizing 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 doing research in psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, human biology/anthropology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Professors, lecturers, and instructors will find it important as a class text in these fields. And the book's clinical implications make it useful to practitioners of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319805800
• ISBN13: 9783319805801
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"