Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity

Otto Buxbaum, born 1942 in Vienna, Austria. Studies in psychology, anthropology and philosophy (1966-1972, Vienna). Dissertation: Über den Ausdruck von Sprachlauten (About the expression of speech sounds). 1972-1983 Assistant at the Institute of Psychology, University of Graz. Habilitation in 1982 (Habilitationsschrift: Kognitionspsychologische Analysen von Kategorisierungsvorgängen) (Thesis: Cognitive analysis of categorization processes). Since then private lecturer. Many years of research on personality theories, person perception and psychiatric-psychological assessment, more and more with reference to human information processing and neuroscience. The current work comprises three studies. These are "Neues Wissen über Grundfragen der Psychiatrie" (New knowledge about basic questions of psychiatry) published by Springer 2015, the planned book and "Neues Wissen über grundlegende pädagogisch-psychologische Begriffe" (New knowledge about basic pedagogical-psychological concepts) submitted for publication. He is currently researching on the coordination of fundamental scientific concepts of psychiatry, psychology and pedagogy.

Introduction to the study of the mind, mental activity and behavior.- The S-O-R model.- Mental processes are neuro-mental processes.- Judgments are processes of feature comparison: experimental evidence.- Generalization of the process of feature comparison: set theory, neural systems.- Conclusions on determinants of behavior and implications for psychiatry, clinical psychology and psychotherapy.