Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-80580-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1883 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buxbaum, Otto

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Otto Buxbaum, born 1942 in Vienna, Austria. Studies in psychology, anthropology and philosophy (1966-1972, Vienna). Dissertation: Über den Ausdruck von Sprachlauten (About the expression of 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 categorization processes). Since then private lecturer. Many years of research on personality theories, person perception and psychiatric-psychological assessment, more and more with reference to human information processing and neuroscience. The current work comprises three studies. These are „Neues Wissen über Grundfragen der Psychiatrie” (New knowledge about basic questions of psychiatry) published by Springer 2015, the planned book and „Neues Wissen über grundlegende pädagogisch-psychologische Begriffe” (New knowledge about basic pedagogical-psychological concepts) submitted for publication. He is currently researching on the coordination of fundamental scientific concepts of psychiatry, psychology and pedagogy.