Individual Mind

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Individual mind is the psychological phenomenon of an individual. It is the psychological phenomenon and behavior of an individual in daily life, work, and learning. It’s relative to group mind. Individual mind is one of the important contents of psychological research, which usually consists of three aspects: mental process, mental state, and personality psychology.

Mental Process

It is a type of psychological phenomenon. It is the process of genesis, development and change of psychological activities within a certain period of time under the effect of objective things. Mental process includes three aspects: (1) Cognitive process: It is the most basic psychological process of human being, referring to the process of individual understanding of objective things, access to knowledge and experience and the application of knowledge. It includes sensation, perception, memory, imagination, thinking and speech activities, etc. In the view of information processing cognitive psychology,...

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  1. Che W-B (2010) Chinese theoretical psychology. Capital Normal University Press, Bei**g

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Shouzhen, Z. (2024). Individual Mind. In: The ECPH Encyclopedia of Psychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6000-2_781-1

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