Psychological Process

A Psychological Process is a mental process that generates Cognitive Patterns, emotional dynamics, and behavioral sequences (within an experiential agent).

• AKA: Psychological Operation, Mind Process, Psychological Mechanism, Mental-Behavioral Process.
• Context:
  • It can typically generate Mental States through psychological cognitive processing and psychological experiential integration.
  • It can typically maintain Behavioral Patterns through psychological action sequences and psychological response chains.
  • It can typically influence Emotional Dynamics through psychological affect regulation and psychological feeling modulation.
  • It can typically shape Cognitive Functions through psychological information processing and psychological mental operations.
  • It can typically guide Social Interactions through psychological interpersonal processes and psychological relational dynamics.
  • It can typically underlie Person's Motives through psychological drive activation and psychological goal formation.
  • It can typically mediate Physiological Responses through psychological mind-body connections and psychological somatic pathways.
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  • It can often facilitate Learning Processes through psychological experience accumulation and psychological knowledge integration.
  • It can often modulate Attention Processes through psychological focus control and psychological awareness direction.
  • It can often coordinate Decision Processes through psychological choice evaluation and psychological action selection.
  • It can often regulate Adaptation Processes through psychological environmental response and psychological situational adjustment.
  • It can often support Coping Strategies through psychological stress management and psychological resilience mechanisms.
  • It can often enable Face Detection Tasks through psychological pattern recognition and psychological feature processing.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Psychological Process to being a Complex Psychological Process, depending on its psychological operational complexity.
  • It can range from being an Automatic Psychological Process to being a Controlled Psychological Process, depending on its psychological conscious involvement.
  • It can range from being an Individual Psychological Process to being a Social Psychological Process, depending on its psychological interpersonal scope.
  • It can range from being a Short-term Psychological Process to being a Long-term Psychological Process, depending on its psychological temporal duration.
  • It can range from being a Healthy Psychological Process to being a Pathological Psychological Process, depending on its psychological functional outcome.
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  • It can interact with Environmental Factors through psychological contextual influence.
  • It can integrate with Biological Systems through psychological neural mechanisms.
  • It can influence Behavioral Outputs through psychological action generation.
  • It can contribute to Mental Disorders through psychological dysfunction patterns.
  • It can enable Delayed Gratification Skills through psychological impulse control.
  • It can create Personal Constructs through psychological meaning making.
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• Example(s):
  • Basic Psychological Processes, such as:
    • Cognitive Processes, such as:
      • Memory Process for psychological information storage.
      • Attention Process for psychological focus allocation.
      • Reasoning Process for psychological logical processing.
      • Language Process for psychological communication processing.
    • Perception Processes, such as:
      • Visual Perception Process for psychological visual information processing.
      • Auditory Perception Process for psychological sound processing.
      • Sensory Integration Process for psychological multimodal processing.
      • Face Recognition Process for psychological identity processing.
    • Emotional Processes, such as:
      • Emotion Recognition Process for psychological feeling identification.
      • Emotion Regulation Process for psychological affect control.
      • Emotional Learning Process for psychological affective adaptation.
      • Emotional Experience for psychological feeling awareness.
      • Emotional Validation for psychological feeling acceptance.
    • Behavioral Processes, such as:
      • Response Generation Process for psychological action initiation.
      • Behavioral Learning Process for psychological pattern formation.
      • Motor Control Process for psychological movement coordination.
      • Habit Formation Process for psychological routine establishment.
  • Complex Psychological Processes, such as:
    • Executive Processes, such as:
      • Decision Making Process for psychological choice processing.
      • Problem Solving Process for psychological solution generation.
      • Goal Planning Process for psychological action sequencing.
      • Working Memory Process for psychological information manipulation.
    • Social Psychological Processes, such as:
      • Social Communication Process for psychological interaction management.
      • Empathy Process for psychological emotional understanding.
      • Social Adaptation Process for psychological group integration.
      • Identification (Psychology) for psychological identity connection.
    • Motivational Processes, such as:
      • Work Motivation for psychological occupational drive.
      • Achievement Motivation Process for psychological goal pursuit.
      • Intrinsic Motivation Process for psychological internal reward.
      • Person's Secondary Motives for psychological derived needs.
    • Clinical Psychological Processes, such as:
      • Anxiety Psychological State generation through psychological threat processing.
      • Stress Response Process for psychological pressure management.
      • Trauma Processing for psychological injury resolution.
      • Psychological Defense Mechanisms for psychological protection.
    • Coping Psychological Processes, such as:
      • Psychological Coping Framework for psychological stress management.
      • Scientific Truth Coping Strategy for psychological reality grounding.
      • Existential Physics Dread management through psychological meaning creation.
      • Resilience Building Process for psychological adversity response.
  • Specialized Psychological Processes, such as:
    • Vision System processes for psychological visual computation.
    • Delayed Gratification processes for psychological reward deferral.
    • Personal Construct formation for psychological reality interpretation.
    • Cognitive-Behavioral Mechanisms for psychological thought-action integration.
  • Cultural Psychological Processes, such as:
    • Propaganda Campaign mechanisms for psychological mass influence.
    • Social Pressure responses for psychological conformity.
    • Childhood Trauma processing for psychological developmental impact.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Physical Process, which operates in material domain without psychological mental components.
  • Mechanical Process, which follows fixed sequences without psychological cognitive flexibility.
  • Chemical Process, which involves molecular interactions without psychological conscious processing.
  • Biological Process, which operates at cellular level without psychological experiential components.
  • Pure Reflex, which occurs without psychological mediation.
• See: Cognitive Psychology, Emotional Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Mental State, Mental Disorder, Psychological Defense Mechanism, Cognitive-Behavioral Mechanism, Carl Jung (1875-1961), Stress-Related Disease, Philosophical Logic, Emotional-State Measure.

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References

2020

• (An & Han, 2020) ⇒ Mingyu An, Seunghyun Lee Han. (2020). “Effects of experiential motivation and customer engagement on customer value creation: Analysis of psychological process in the experience-based retail environment.” In: Journal of Business Research,
  • NOTE: This study attempts to confirm the psychological process of customer engagement by …

2015

• (Vallacher, Van Geert & Others, 2015) ⇒ Robin R. Vallacher, Paul Van Geert, ..... (2015). “The Intrinsic Dynamics of Psychological Process.” In: Current Directions in Psychological Science,
  • NOTE: The intrinsic dynamism of psychological process is difficult to investigate using traditional …

2013

• (Frey & Osborne, 2013) ⇒ Carl Benedikt Frey, and Michael A Osborne. (2013). “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?." Technical Report, Oxford University - OMS.
  • QUOTE: ... Creative intelligence tasks. The psychological processes underlying human creativity are difficult to specify. According to Boden (2003), creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artifacts that are novel and valuable.

2009

• (Guo, Xiao & Tang, 2009) ⇒ Liying Guo, Jessie J. Xiao, Changyun Tang. (2009). “Understanding the Psychological Process Underlying Customer Satisfaction and Retention in a Relational Service.” In: Journal of Business Research.
  • NOTE: This paper reexamines the psychological process underlying the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer retention in a relational service context. It is based on a …

2006

• (Taylor & Horgan, 2006) ⇒ Max Taylor, John Horgan. (2006). “A Conceptual Framework for Addressing Psychological Process in the Development of the Terrorist.” In: Terrorism and Political Violence,
  • NOTE: A conceptual framework is presented for addressing psychological issues in the development of the terrorist. In particular, the authors suggest that viewing terrorism as a process may …

1989

• (Mischel et al., 1989) ⇒ Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Monica I. Rodriguez. (1989). “Delay of Gratification in Children.” In: Science, 244(4907). doi:10.1126/science.2658056
  • ABSTRACT: To function effectively, individuals must voluntarily postpone immediate gratification and persist in goal-directed behavior for the sake of later outcomes. The present research program analyzed the nature of this type of future-oriented self-control and the psychological processes that underlie it.

1980

• (Marslen-Wilson, 1980) ⇒ William D. Marslen-Wilson. (1980). “Speech Understanding as a Psychological Process.” In: Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the ...,
  • NOTE: An overview of recent psychological research into speech understanding is presented, with an emphasis on spoken word-recognition processes.

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