The Memory - Part I

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 Thinking - Part II

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 [...]

The Thinking - Part I

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 [...]

Representation

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 [...]

Perception

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 [...]

Sensations

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.
There are six types of sensations, each with a different physical receiver. These are [...]

The Psychic

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 [...]