Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity

Otto Buxbaum, born1942 in Vienna, Austria. Studies in psychology, anthropology and philosophy(1966-1972, Vienna). Dissertation: Über den Ausdruck vonSprachlauten (About the expressionof 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 categorizationprocesses). Since then private lecturer. Many years of research on personalitytheories, person perception and psychiatric-psychological assessment, more andmore with reference to human information processing and neuroscience. Thecurrent work comprises three studies. These are „NeuesWissen über Grundfragen der Psychiatrie” (New knowledge about basic questions of psychiatry) published bySpringer 2015, the planned book and „Neues Wissen übergrundlegende pädagogisch-psychologische Begriffe” (New knowledge about basic pedagogical-psychological concepts)submitted for publication. He is currently researching on the coordination offundamental 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.