Study on the operator's mental activity under unexpected control system's condition

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiji Kobayashi ◽  
Sakae Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Mental Activity

Pleasure as a Sign of Efficacy of Mental Activity

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Cabanac ◽  
Chantal Pouliot ◽  
James Everett
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Macintosh Computer ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Cognitive Efficiency ◽  
Sensory Pleasure ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mental Tasks

Previous work has shown that sensory pleasure is both the motor and the sign of optimal behaviors aimed at physiological ends. From an evolutionary psychology point of view it may be postulated that mental pleasure evolved from sensory pleasure. Accordingly, the present work tested empirically the hypothesis that pleasure signals efficacious mental activity. In Experiment 1, ten subjects played video-golf on a Macintosh computer. After each hole they were invited to rate their pleasure or displeasure on a magnitude estimation scale. Their ratings of pleasure correlated negatively with the difference par minus performance, i.e., the better the performance the greater the pleasure reported. In Experiments 2 and 3, the pleasure of reading poems was correlated with comprehension, both rated by two groups of subjects, science students and arts students. In the majority of science students pleasure was significantly correlated with comprehension. Only one arts student showed this relationship; this result suggests that the proposed relationship between pleasure and cognitive efficiency is not tautological. Globally, the results support the hypothesis that pleasure is aroused by the same mechanisms, and follows the same laws, in physiological and cognitive mental tasks and also leads to the optimization of performance.

The Effect of Alcohol on Mental Activity

1941 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wechsler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Activity

Causal Idealism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relation ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Causal Judgments

This chapter argues that causal idealism, the view that causation is a product of mental activity, is at least as attractive as several contemporary views of causation that incorporate human thought and agency into the causal relation. The chapter discusses three such views: contextualism, which holds that truth conditions for causal judgments are contextual; contrastivism, which holds that the causal relation is a quaternary relation between a cause, an effect, and contextually specified contrast classes for the cause and the effect; and pragmatism, which holds that causal claims are sensitive to pragmatic factors. This chapter suggests that causal idealism has at least as much explanatory strength as these three theories, and is more parsimonious and internally stable.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Philosophy Of Art ◽  
Liturgical Theology ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Subsequent Discussion ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Mind

This chapter considers why contemporary analytic philosophers of religion have neglected liturgy and focused almost all of their attention on religious belief. Following Descartes, reflections on mental activity and the mind have been central in modern philosophy. But that has not prevented the emergence of philosophy of art, philosophy of language, and political philosophy, none of which deal with mental activity or the mind. So why not philosophy of liturgy? Several explanations are considered; but none is found to be fully satisfactory. The Introduction concludes with an explanation of how the subsequent discussion relates to liturgical theology and to anthropological ritual studies.

scholarly journals The Effect of Color Temperature of Lighting Sources on Mental Activity Level.

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takatsugu DEGUCHI ◽  
Masahiko SATO
Keyword(s):  
Mental Activity ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
Color Temperature

Conation and Mental Activity. II

1909 ◽  
Vol 6 (19) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
W. H. Winch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Activity

Post-hypnotic suggestion and the existence of unconscious mental activity

Analysis ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 184-189
Author(s):  
D. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Activity ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestion

Growth in Social Behavior and Mental Activity after Six Months in Nursery School

1935 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Mallay
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Nursery School ◽  
Mental Activity
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