The Memory - Part I

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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The memory refers to the temporal dimension of our psychic structure. It reflects information of all kinds, about our past experiences. Our memory is also involved in the present, by delivering information to the thinking, helping our current actions, and by storing and updating plans of the actions to be accomplished, it is present in the future. Thanks to the memory, our Ego gains the continuity of our identity over time - we wouldn’t know who we are, if every situation would be new for us.
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The Thinking - Part II

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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Thinking includes three component categories: contents (behavioral, semantics, figurative and symbolic), operations (evaluation, convergent thinking, divergent thinking, cognition and memory) and products (units, classes, relations, implications, systems and transformations).

The notion is a product of thinking, and yet, thinking is a system based on notions. This circular form ensures that as a process grows its abilities to analyze and generalize, the notions will also be more elaborated. Notions can be concrete (physical characteristics) or abstract (when they Read more

The Thinking - Part I

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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The thinking is the core of our psychic; just like a traffic officer in an intersection, it controls every bit of information, and makes sure it reaches wherever it is needed. The thinking receives data from every single mental process, modifies or just takes notice of it, and then sends the results to other mental functions. The results are always reflected in our behaviors or attitudes. It is important to know that all the intellectual processes are mediated through language, with a few exceptions (it’s been reported that synaesthetes use colors, sounds or emotions instead of words), so memory has a fundamental purpose in all of them.

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Representation

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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Representation is the first mental process that doesn’t require direct contact with the external stimulus to take place. As we will see in a future article, our memory doesn’t have a specific space in which the data is recorded, stored and afterwards read, like a computer’s hard drive. The memory is divided among different processes that take advantage of it. Representation is one of them, and stores the information from perception for a very short time. The object’s image does not go away right after the object stops contact with the physical analyzer; it remains there for up to one second.

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Perception

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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Perception is the process through which objects and activities are reflected as wholes to our mental processing. We often explore an object’s properties using more than one analyzer, so the perception takes care that the characteristics we receive are always forming a whole, for a particular object.

Without it, each physical analyzer would send different aspects of the object to the brain, and it would result a fragmented image for that object, which would be our final representation. Read more

Sensations

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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The sensation is a primary psychic process that allows an individual to get in touch with the environment. The surrounding objects are introduced to our perception through sensations, but their function stop here, being just interceders between the objects and our perception.

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The Psychic

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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The psychic, most often referred to as our ’soul’, is based on our ideal reactions to the outside world, which are perceived, sorted, combined and shaped in convenient manners, which are ultimately reflected in our behaviors. Its physical support is the brain, consisting of nervous cells called neurons. Science has not been able to explain so far how the neurons are able to provide such a complex system such as the psychic, just by transferring electrical impulses to each other. However, scientists could explain simple processes, such as how worms with a basic nervous system are able to feel pain. Read more