Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity [Hardcover]

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: 

Introducesthe S-O-R (stimulus-organism-response) model of mental activity.
• Recastsmental processes as neuro-mental processes.
• Providesempirical evidence for the neural basis for judgments.
• Addressesongoing 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 books clinicalimplications make it useful to practitioners of psychology, psychiatry, andpsychotherapy.

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 psycholó>