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Generative Mental Processes and Cognitive Resources

Integrative Research on Adaptation and Control

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Editors:
  1. Ulrich Hecker

    1. University of Potsdam, Germany

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  2. Stephan Dutke

    1. University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

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  3. Grzegorz Sedek

    1. Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology, Poland

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Processing Constraints in Aging, Anxiety, and Depression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-128
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    2. Aging-Related Constraints and Adaptations in Social Information Processing

      • Thomas M. Hess
      Pages 129-155

    3. Maintaining Competence in the Face of Resource Limitations: The Role of Schema Complexity in Aging and Communication

      • Mary Lee Hummert
      Pages 157-174

    4. Age Differences in Social Schematicity

      • Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Christopher Hertzog
      Pages 175-198

    5. Predictive Inferences: Basic Processes and Biased Potentiation by Anxiety

      • Manuel G. Calvo
      Pages 199-222

    6. Worry, Thoughts, and Images: A New Conceptualization

      • Joachim Stöber
      Pages 223-244

    7. Impaired Systematic, Higher Order Strategies in Depression and Helplessness: Testing Implications of the Cognitive Exhaustion Model

      • Ulrich von Hecker, Grzegorz Sedek, Daniel N. McIntosh
      Pages 245-275

  4. New Methodologies in Individual Difference Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-281
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    2. Capacity and Procedural Accounts of Impaired Memory in Depression

      • Paula Hertel, Thorsten Meiser
      Pages 283-307

    3. Cognitive Prerequisites for Scaleable Data: A Model of Impression Formation

      • Hubert Feger
      Pages 309-336

    4. Resource Limitations and Process Dissociations in Individual Differences Research

      • Reinhold Kliegl, Ulrich Mayr, Klaus Oberauer
      Pages 337-366

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 367-384
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In recent years, a booming research interest has been observed in linking basic cognitive processes with a variety of social and clinical phenomena. Evidence comes from the increasing popularity of psychological paradigms such as social cognition, cognitive psychopathology or cognitive aging. What links those paradigms is their special focus on explaining cognitive phenomena by use of the concept of mental resources. Immediate reasons for such a focus are found in the growing emphasis on understanding everyday dynamics of thinking and acting within a complex world, as well as within personal constraints. Obviously, our current goals and choice of activities constrain and influence our reasoning as well as the processes of input to and retrieval from memory. Situational demands will act to the same effect, and the interplay between both, internal and external constraints, makes apparent a first and straightforward relevance of the resource notion in action-oriented cognitive research. For example, person perception is a dynamic process depending on what my goals in perception are, what the perceiving situation is that I find myself in, and how complex the target characteristics are. In fact, the amount of resources spent in this process may be reflected in its speed, the quality of the perceptual or mnemonic trace which is being created, or the kind of social or non-social behavior that can be supported.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Potsdam, Germany

    Ulrich Hecker

  • University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Stephan Dutke

  • Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology, Poland

    Grzegorz Sedek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Generative Mental Processes and Cognitive Resources

  • Book Subtitle: Integrative Research on Adaptation and Control

  • Editors: Ulrich Hecker, Stephan Dutke, Grzegorz Sedek

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4373-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6562-4Published: 30 November 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5880-3Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4373-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 384

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology

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