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.