Psychological Process

A Psychological Process is a mental process that creates cognitive patterns, emotional dynamics, and behavioral sequences (within an experiential agent).

• AKA: Psychological Operation, Mind Process.
• Context:
  • It can typically generate Mental States through cognitive processing and experiential integration.
  • It can typically maintain Behavioral Patterns through action sequences and response chains.
  • It can typically influence Emotional Dynamics through affect regulation and feeling modulation.
  • It can typically shape Cognitive Functions through information processing and mental operations.
  • It can typically guide Social Interactions through interpersonal processes and relational dynamics.
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  • It can often facilitate Learning Processes through experience accumulation and knowledge integration.
  • It can often modulate Attention Processes through focus control and awareness direction.
  • It can often coordinate Decision Processes through choice evaluation and action selection.
  • It can often regulate Adaptation Processes through environmental response and situational adjustment.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Process to being a Complex Process, depending on its operational complexity.
  • It can range from being an Automatic Process to being a Controlled Process, depending on its conscious involvement.
  • It can range from being a Individual Process to being a Social Process, depending on its interpersonal scope.
  • It can range from being a Short-term Process to being a Long-term Process, depending on its temporal duration.
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  • It can interact with Environmental Factors through contextual influence.
  • It can integrate with Biological Systems through neural mechanisms.
  • It can influence Behavioral Outputs through action generation.
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• Examples:
  • Basic Psychological Processes, such as:
    • Cognitive Processes, such as:
      • Memory Process for information storage.
      • Attention Process for focus allocation.
      • Reasoning Process for logical processing.
    • Perception Processes, such as:
      • Visual Perception Process for visual information processing.
      • Auditory Perception Process for sound processing.
      • Sensory Integration Process for multimodal processing.
    • Emotional Processes, such as:
      • Emotion Recognition Process for feeling identification.
      • Emotion Regulation Process for affect control.
      • Emotional Learning Process for affective adaptation.
    • Behavioral Processes, such as:
      • Response Generation Process for action initiation.
      • Behavioral Learning Process for pattern formation.
      • Motor Control Process for movement coordination.
  • Complex Psychological Processes, such as:
    • Executive Processes, such as:
      • Decision Making Process for choice processing.
      • Problem Solving Process for solution generation.
      • Goal Planning Process for action sequencing.
    • Social Psychological Processes, such as:
      • Social Communication Process for interaction management.
      • Empathy Process for emotional understanding.
      • Social Adaptation Process for group integration.
    • Development Processes, such as:
      • Skill Acquisition Process for ability development.
      • Identity Formation Process for self-development.
      • Coping Process for stress management.
      • Resilience Building Process for adversity response.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Physical Process, which operates in material domain without mental components.
  • Mechanical Process, which follows fixed sequences without cognitive flexibility.
  • Chemical Process, which involves molecular interactions without conscious processing.
  • Biological Process, which operates at cellular level without psychological components.
• See: Cognitive Psychology, Emotional Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology.

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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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