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Generative Mental Processes and Cognitive Resources - Integrative Research on Adaptation and Control (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Generative Mental Processes and Cognitive Resources - Integrative Research on Adaptation and Control (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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In recent years, a booming research interest has been observed in
linking basic cognitive processes with a variety of social and
clinical phenomena. Evidence comes from the increasing popularity
of psychological paradigms such as social cognition, cognitive
psychopathology or cognitive aging. What links those paradigms is
their special focus on explaining cognitive phenomena by use of the
concept of mental resources. Immediate reasons for such a focus are
found in the growing emphasis on understanding everyday dynamics of
thinking and acting within a complex world, as well as within
personal constraints. Obviously, our current goals and choice of
activities constrain and influence our reasoning as well as the
processes of input to and retrieval from memory. Situational
demands will act to the same effect, and the interplay between
both, internal and external constraints, makes apparent a first and
straightforward relevance of the resource notion in action-oriented
cognitive research. For example, person perception is a dynamic
process depending on what my goals in perception are, what the
perceiving situation is that I find myself in, and how complex the
target characteristics are. In fact, the amount of resources spent
in this process may be reflected in its speed, the quality of the
perceptual or mnemonic trace which is being created, or the kind of
social or non-social behavior that can be supported.
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