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What is the primary function of thinking, and how does it relate to the use of stored knowledge?
The primary function of thinking is to experience or manipulate ideas, images, or mental representations to solve various tasks, and it relates to the use of stored knowledge by utilizing it to perform tasks such as remembering, imagining, problem-solving, and concept formation.
What is imagination, and how does it differ from direct sensory experience?
Imagination is the creative ability to form images, ideas, and sensations in the mind based on past perception in the absence of direct sensory data, often by combining fragments of previous sensory experiences into new syntheses.
What are the key differences between emotion and feeling, according to Paul Ekman's theory?
Emotion is an unconscious, short-term mental phenomenon, whereas feeling is a conscious, long-term mental phenomenon, with emotion involving a surrounding engagement with the world and feeling involving an internal experience.
What is the primary function of will (volition), and how does it relate to decision-making and motivation?
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What is a mental state, and how does it relate to emotional states and mental properties?
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Study Notes
Mental Phenomena
- Mental phenomena include mental processes, states, and properties
- Mental processes are formed through an individual's interaction with the environment
Cognitive Processes
- There are eight types of cognitive processes in psychology
- Sensation: the cognitive function that allows us to reflect on objects and phenomena through the senses
- Perception: the cognitive function that allows us to make out the meaning of information
- Attention: the cognitive function that allows us to selectively focus on a particular stimulus
- Memory: the cognitive function that allows us to code, store, and recover information from the past
- Thinking: the cognitive function that involves ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought
- Speech: the cognitive function, as a system of human sounds, written signs, and symbols used to represent, process, store and transmit verbal information
- Imagination: the cognitive function that allows us to form images, ideas, and sensations in the mind based on past perception
Emotions
- Emotions reflect the surrounding world
- Paul Ekman proposed seven basic emotions: sad, joy, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, contempt
- Emotion typically involves feeling and differs from having an overt or implicit engagement with the world
- Emotion (unconscious) is a short-term mental phenomena, feeling (conscious) is a long-term mental phenomena
Will (Volition)
- Will is a conscious management of behavior and activities
- It is expressed by the ability to make decisions and overcome internal and external difficulties on the way to achieving the aim
- Any voluntary action has its own motive (cause) that motivates (directs) and gives motivation (energy) to be active on the way to achieving the aim
Mental States
- Mental states are the condition or status of an entity or system at a particular time
- Emotional states include anxiety, frustration, stress, affect, etc.
Mental Properties
- Mental properties are typical characteristics of a person's peculiarities
- Examples of mental properties include character, temperament, ability, and skill
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This quiz explores the mental processes, states, and properties that influence human behavior. It delves into the dynamics of cognition, emotions, and volition in the mind.
