mental processing
1Mental chronometry — For Ian Lowe s book, see Reaction Time (book). Reaction time redirects here. For the biological mechanism, see Reflex. Mental chronometry is the use of response time in perceptual motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal… …
2Mental health court — Mental health courts link offenders who would ordinarily be prison bound to long term community based treatment. They rely on mental health assessments, individualized treatment plans, and ongoing judicial monitoring to address both the mental… …
3mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
4Mental rotation — is the ability to rotate mental representations of two dimensional and three dimensional objects. Contents 1 Introduction 2 How mental rotation ability is assessed …
5Levels-of-processing effect — The levels of processing effect, identified by Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart in 1972, describes memory recall of stimuli as a function of the depth of mental processing. A stimulus’s mental processing depth is determined by… …
6Information processing theory — The information processing theory approach to the study of cognitive development evolved out of the American experimental tradition in psychology. Information processing theorists proposed that like the computer, the human mind is a system that… …
7Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health — This article is about the book by L. Ron Hubbard first published in 1950. For the general body of ideas and practices known as Dianetics , see Dianetics. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health   …
8National Institute of Mental Health — Agency overview Formed April 14, 1949 Headquarters Bethesda, Maryland, U.S …
9Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States… …
10Causes of mental disorders — Main article: Mental disorder The causes of mental disorders are complex, and interact and vary according to the particular disorder and individual. Genetics, early development, drugs, a loss of a family member, disease or injury, neurocognitive… …
