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Pages in category "Mental processes" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ambidexterity;
For years, sociologists and psychologists have conducted studies on cognitive development, i.e. the construction of human thought or mental processes. [citation needed] Jean Piaget was one of the most important and influential people in the field of developmental psychology. He believed that humans are unique in comparison to animals because we ...
Mental operations: systems view. Taking into account all mental processes, the following types of mental operations have been described: [8] cognitive operations – production and verbalization of images and thoughts; practical operations, pertaining to executive functions; affective operations – affective evaluation of the world and self;
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. [1] Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism , which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of ...
A central tenet of cognitive science is that a complete understanding of the mind/brain cannot be attained by studying only a single level. An example would be the problem of remembering a phone number and recalling it later. One approach to understanding this process would be to study behavior through direct observation, or naturalistic ...
A thinking chimpanzee. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to thought (thinking): . Thought is the object of a mental process called thinking, in which beings form psychological associations and models of the world.
Automatic and controlled processes (ACP) are the two categories of cognitive processing.All cognitive processes fall into one or both of those two categories. The amounts of "processing power", attention, and effort a process requires is the primary factor used to determine whether it's a controlled or an automatic process.
The mind–body problem concerns the explanation of the relationship that exists between minds, or mental processes, and bodily states or processes. [115] The main aim of philosophers working in this area is to determine the nature of the mind and mental states/processes, and how—or even if—minds are affected by and can affect the body.