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| | Buddhism in a Nutshell - Chap 63 |
 | | Thus, the Dharmas are the mental functions or phenomena due to or in association with mind / consciousness. | | | The seen portions of the first five mental faculties (eye, ear, nose, tongue and body) are the five ‘dusts’ (form, sound, smell, taste and touch). | | | With respect to the relationship between the subjective consciousness and the object phenomena, there are four mental functional portions in each of the eight consciousnesses. |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/bdoor/0302/sources/teach63.htm
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| | Alchemical Mage - Ascension Tools and Techniques - Tools |
| | The gradual release of the karmic gunk shifts the geometries and functions of the emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. | | | The mental body usually believes that it is in charge of the lifetime and suppresses the emotional body's "irrational" emotions, needs and impulses. | | | The mental body vibrates in the high fourth dimension (higher astral plane) and focuses mostly in the future. |
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http://www.alchemicalmage.com/tools/energybodies.htm
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| | A. Sri Aurobindo's writings |
| | It may be divided into three functions, the forming of mental images, the power of creating thoughts, images and imitations or new combinations of existing thoughts and images, the appreciation of the soul in things, beauty, charm, greatness, hidden suggestiveness, the emotion and spiritual life that pervades the world. | | | Not only so, but the mental centres of comparison and contrast will be developed. | | | When the mental instruments are sufficiently developed to acquire a language easily and swiftly, that is the time to introduce him to many languages, not when he can only partially understand what he is taught and masters it laboriously and imperfectly. |
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| | By origins, most lower mental functions are genetically inherited, by structure they are unmediated, by functioning they are involuntary, and with regard to their relation to other mental functions they are isolated individual mental units. | | | On a more broad scale, the development of human mental functions is viewed by Vygotsky as their transition from their original lower mental functions form into higher mental functions form, with differences between the two being drawn along four major criteria: origins, structure, the way of functioning and the relation to other mental functions. | | | In contrast, a higher mental function is socially acquired, mediated by social meanings, voluntarily controlled and exists as a link in a broad system of functions rather than as an individual unit. |
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http://psych.hanover.edu/vygotsky/subbot.html
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| | NEW PHRENOLOGY |
| | The functions of the nervous cells, as functions, may include something which is at the basis of psychological states, but at the present time the physical and chemical activities of the cells can not be believed to be equivalents of the mental processes which may be concomitant with or the result of these activities. | | | There were some who disputed the functional dismemberment of the brain, and withstood the establishment of spatial localizations for definite mental functions, but their voices were not listened to or their facts were denied, or their arguments disregarded. | | | If each of these areas, histologically distinct from one another, has an individual function distinct from the functions of the other areas, we should also have a similar number of mental functions or faculties to correlate with them. |
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http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Franz/phrenology.htm
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| | John Searle's The Construction of Social Reality |
| | Social facts are collective intentional facts, and may become functional facts when they assign functions to physical or mental phenomena. | | | The structure of social reality is a hierarchy in which logical functions are assigned to social facts, and in which status-functions are determined by collective intentionality. | | | Thus, mental facts are based on physical facts, and both physical and mental facts are required for the construction of social reality. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/searle.html
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| | Harvey Carr: The Nature of Mental Process |
| | This paper proposes the somewhat unorthodox view that the mental functions with which psychology concerns itself are in reality psychophysical, and at times neural, activities and that psychology shall study and attempt to comprehend these functions in their entirety. | | | The author adopted this conception of the nature of mental process several years ago and is convinced from his teaching experience that such a mode of treatment possesses certain distinct advantages. | | | The subjective conception of mental process as something immaterial constitutes an inadequate tool for the physician in his attempt to comprehend the nature of the mental, or functional disorders. |
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http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/sup/Carr_1917.html
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| | SELF, MIND AND INTENTIONALITY |
| | Aim:I would like to discuss here the relationship between cognitive (or mental) functions of the mind and the self:It is obvious that our notion of the self and our notion of the world make use of cognitive functions and at the same time influence their functioning, and the functioning of intelligence. | | | Self-consciousness is a mental function which makes our thought processes explicit, clear and so forth, but as far as the self and its world go, it is always a consciousness of some mental content from the point of view of another mental content. | | | I refer all the contents of my mental life, my thoughts, experiences, relationships, and the world in general to my self.The second is what I shall call self-image:This is what we think we are, and of course changes from time to time. |
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http://home.pacbell.net/moorty/self.htm
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| | 7711/6642 Notes 4 |
| | Both views, while different in approaches to the study of development, are linked by a common methodological point: in an effort to understand higher mental functions, both views reduce these functions to simple, or primary, functions, ignoring the interactions and differences between higher and lower functions. | | | Vygotsky (1997) provides an analysis of opposing views concerning the development of higher mental functions. | | | devices of his behavior, transforms natural instincts and functions, and develops and creates new forms of behavior – specifically cultural. |
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| | Cognitive functions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The cognitive functions, sometimes known as mental functions, are thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition. | | | Each one of these mental functions can be either introverted or extraverted (known as attitudes). | | | Isabel Myers interpreted Jung's writing as saying that the auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions are always in the opposite attitude of the dominant. |
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| | Key Theorists/Theories in Psychology - EDWARD THORNDIKE |
| | The Influence of Improvement on One Mental Function on the Efficiency of Other Functions: II The Estimation of Magnitudes (Classic by E. Thorndike and R. Woodworth: 1901b) | | | The Influence of Improvement on One Mental Function on the Efficiency of Other Functions: III Functions Involving Attention, Observation, and Discrimination (Classic by E. Thorndike and R. Woodworth: 1901c) | | | The Influence of Improvement on One Mental Function on the Efficiency of Other Functions: I (Classic by E. Thorndike and R. Woodworth: 1901a) |
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| | Key Theorists/Theories in Psychology - EDWARD THORNDIKE |
| | The Influence of Improvement on One Mental Function on the Efficiency of Other Functions: II The Estimation of Magnitudes (Classic by E. Thorndike and R. Woodworth: 1901b) | | | The Influence of Improvement on One Mental Function on the Efficiency of Other Functions: III Functions Involving Attention, Observation, and Discrimination (Classic by E. Thorndike and R. Woodworth: 1901c) | | | The Influence of Improvement on One Mental Function on the Efficiency of Other Functions: I (Classic by E. Thorndike and R. Woodworth: 1901a) |
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http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Thorndike.htm
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| | 2005_PLAN.doc |
| | The Mental Health Division is accountable to the legislature for the public mental health system, and is responsible for licensing and certification processes, quality management, policy setting, management of two adult and one child psychiatric hospital and other administrative functions. | | | It is the responsibility of the mental health system to educate the public on mental health issues: in particular, to provide information substantiating that children may not be seriously emotionally disturbed, but have other issues in their lives that affect their behavior bringing them to the attention of the community. | | | The community mental health system is funded under a capitation arrangement, with county-based RSNs receiving monthly payments intended to cover the cost of providing mental health services in their catchment areas. |
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http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/word/hrsa/mh/2005_PLAN.doc
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| | Lawsonomy Volume Three, Chapter 3 |
| | In this way all mental functions have been notified what is to be done and they all work in conjunction with one another. | | | The mental functionaries conducting the different departments are conscious of the special work they have to perform, but, in connection with the general movement of the entire body or its mental attitude they respond mechanically to the authority of the mind. | | | In the cells at the ends of the mental fibers, the menorgs superintend the mixture of fuel substances brought there by the blood through the Capillaries, and at a prearranged moment the fuel and oxygen are ignited, creating explosions which cause pressure upon the minute muscle fibers, which forces them to contract. |
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http://www.lawsonomy.org/Lawsonomy303.html
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| | Chapter 17 - Learning to Observe Signs of Mental Impairment |
| | Memory is a complex set of mental functions which requires noticing the stimulus, making some sense of it, transferring the thoughts or images to a mental storage area and finally calling the thoughts or images back up into consciousness at the required time. | | | Also, race bias can lead lawyers to dismiss significant signs of mental impairment as "normal" for those from certain cultural arenas such as "the ghetto" or "the barrio." If these errors by lawyers are accepted as fact by the mental health professional, gross underestimation of impairment may result in serious detriment to the client. | | | A mental health expert with a thorough medical and social history, reports of careful observation, and their own clinical observation and testing results can properly analyze this behavior. |
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| | Science vs Pseudoscience |
| | They opposed Descartes on two scores: (i) they believed that the brain is the organ of mental function, and no mere transceiver; and (ii) they believed that certain parts of the brain were responsible for particular mental functions, including higher mental functions, like love or religious sentiment. | | | Descartes thus took a negative view of what might be called the "hypothesis of localization of mental function", and he took a stand against holding the brain to be the locus of mental activity. | | | Gall and Spurzheim sought to gather data to support their hypotheses and examined hundreds of skulls of both human and animals, never once finding any refutation of their views. |
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| | Speak Out! Resources - Mental Health Policy Making in Westchester County |
| | The functions of the department are primarily mental health planning and contracting. | | | The administration of mental health policies and programs in New York City is primarily the responsibility of The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which is headed by a Commissioner. | | | The Department of Mental Health develops a plan for spending Reinvestment funds under its control and develops recommendations for the state commissioner regarding funds that are under state control. |
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| | STEPHEN DINE YOUNG |
| | Young, S., Simon, L., Nicholson, J., and Bateman, A. (1995, March). The impact of managed mental health care on child and adolescent dispositions in a regional emergency mental health center. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Research Conference for a 'System of Care' for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base, Tampa, FL. | | | Young, S., Nicholson, J. and Davis, M. (1995). An overview of issues in research on consumer satisfaction with child and adolescent mental health services. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 4(2), pp. | | | Young, S., Simon, L., Nicholson, J., and Bateman, A. The impact of managed mental health care on child and adolescent dispositions in a regional emergency mental health service. In C.J. Liberton, K. Kutash and R.M. Friedman (Eds.) Eighth annual research conference proceedings: A system of care for children's mental health (pp. |
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| | Hospitals Books 1955-1959 |
| | A study of nursing functions in general hospitals in the State of Minnesota; a study of the functions of general duty and head nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nurse aides, including a comparison of the preparation and functions of licensed practical nurses. | | | Current salaries in state mental health programs; a compilation of salaries and maintenance schedules for selected personnel in state mental hospitals, institutions for the mentally deficient and the central administration of mental health programs. | | | Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of the Philadelphia signed at Manila June 30, 1958. |
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| | Acute Mental Status Changes |
| | Major categories of the neurologic examination are tested during the history and physical examination: mental status, cranial nerves, motor and sensory functions, deep tendon reflexes, and cerebellum. | | | A mental status change of cardiovascular origin is termed syncope, which encompasses a constellation of symptoms that include generalized muscle weakness, loss of postural tone, inability to stand upright, and loss of consciousness. | | | In general, a change in mental status that originates in the central nervous system is frequently accompanied by a focal or lateralizing neurologic deficit that may include cranial nerve dysfunction, hemiplegia, or hemiparesis. |
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| | Benefitnews.com - Printer-Friendly Output |
| | An individual with a mental or physical impairment is a “qualified individual” if he is able to perform the essential functions of the job he or she holds or desires with or without reasonable accommodation. | | | As a general rule, when the mental impairment or need for accommodation is not obvious, an employer may ask an employee for reasonable documentation about his or her purported disability and functional limitations. | | | Covered mental impairments do not include, for example, poor judgment, a quick temper, or irritability, so long as the traits are not a symptom of a protected mental impairment. |
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http://www.benefitnews.com/pfv.cfm?id=371
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| | Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, VAMC/UofM, Minneapolis |
| | The Unit focuses upon brain mapping of cognitive functions in people who are healthy and in patients with mental disease. | | | One of our guiding hypotheses posits that the study of the neural bases of mental disorders will converge with the mapping of normal cognitive functions to provide novel insights. | | | Since higher cognitive functions (language, attention, memory, affect, etc.) both interact and merge at multiple levels, the Unit does not restrict inquiry to any one system. |
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| | NEW PHRENOLOGY |
| | They contended that the clinical and physiological facts gave no warrant for a localization in parts of the cerebral cortex of mental functions as such, and furthermore they pointed out that the cortical centers did not operate independently, and that functions could not be considered apart from the totality of the elements involved. | | | Gall, as he remarks in the preface to the work on the "Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System," had made numerous observations of the relation of facial, cranial and mental characteristics, and the hypothesis of diversified functions for different brain areas well fitted his own views. | | | The mind, it was supposed, is composed of a collection of units, of mental states or faculties which differ from one another in degree or in kind. |
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| | Concentration-Insight Meditation |
| | Meditation by concentration of the mind to remove the Five Hindrances is known as samatha, while the contemplation of physical body, feelings, mental functions and phenomena (dhamma) to develop Right Wisdom is called vipassana. | | | We have also described the three basic Dhamma practices that develop the Noble Eightfold Path : sila or observance of moral precepts, samatha meditation for concentration of the mind to remove the Five Hindrances, and vipassana meditation which involves contemplation of the physical body, feelings, mental functions and dhamma to develop to Right Wisdom. | | | In summary, meditation by concentrating the mind to remove the Five Hindrances is known as samatha, while contemplation of the physical body, feelings, mental functions and dhamma to develop Right Wisdom is called vipassana. |
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| | Enlightener Vol. 4 No. 1 The Ascension (1982) Year 28 A.F. |
| | The karma in their inner bodies they could re- deem at inner levels, because one retains his/her mental consciousness and feeling world, which functions within the etheric body. | | | The mental elements charged with that vibratory action, which fill the men- tal atmosphere, must be redeemed and does return to Its creator as mental pressure in the mental body. | | | These various types of crimes on these three planes, in their return circuit are the primary causes of the physical, mental and emotional diseases. |
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| | cerebral cortex -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Consequently, the terms higher cerebral functions and higher cortical functions are used by neurologists and neuroscientists to refer to all conscious mental activity of the kind normally described as thinking, remembering, and reasoning and to complex... | | | Layer of gray matter that constitutes the outer layer of the cerebrum and is responsible for integrating sensory impulses and for higher intellectual functions. | | | It is characterized by the death of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex—part of the brain involved in complex functions (see Brain). |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9360190
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| | I often use studly caps or "camel case" in my own classes and functions, and the existing convention helps to keep a mental separation between low-level PHP functions and my library functions written in PHP. | | | I think function naming convention is just fine where it is: built-in functions in lowercase with underscores, and PHP libraries using studly caps. | | | I think studlyCaps is good for built-in objects, but not for built-in functions. |
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| | Chapter 17 - Learning to Observe Signs of Mental Impairment |
| | Memory is a complex set of mental functions which requires noticing the stimulus, making some sense of it, transferring the thoughts or images to a mental storage area and finally calling the thoughts or images back up into consciousness at the required time. | | | Impairment or interference at any of the critical points will result in "memory problems." Difficulties with memory are recognized as important signs in psychiatry and neurology and can be clues to a variety of mental illnesses. | | | Also, race bias can lead lawyers to dismiss significant signs of mental impairment as "normal" for those from certain cultural arenas such as "the ghetto" or "the barrio." If these errors by lawyers are accepted as fact by the mental health professional, gross underestimation of impairment may result in serious detriment to the client. |
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| | Christian meditation and Christian cultivation |
| | The vicara mental activities constitute a more refined form of mental investigation than vitarka, yet in terms of the samadhi attainments these two mental activities are still considered coarse functions of the mind. | | | In the Buddhist description, the first dhyana still contains vitarka mental clinging, and vicara mental activities as well. | | | Investigation (vicara) refers to thorough and detailed research; its nature is to cause the mind to be earnest and ardent and to examine in a subtle manner the objects of mental discourse. |
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