Generative Mental Processes and Cognitive Resources

by Hecker, Ulrich; Dutke, Stephan; Sedek, Grzegorz

• ISBN13: 9780792365624
• ISBN10: 0792365623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume presents contributions of European and North American researchers sharing an interest in generative forms of thinking and in deployable mental resources. The special emphasis of this book is highlighting the close links that exist between apparently heterogeneous psychological domains such as basis research on memory and reasoning strategies, social cognition studies on knowledge activation and use, and research on cognitive processes in aging, depression, and anxiety. These integrative chapters not only deal with many intriguing topics concerning generative mental processes and their situational and individual constraints but also inform the reader about a variety of modern methodological instruments (to mention just a few - multinomial modelling, dual task paradigm, priming procedures, and time-accuracy functions). The book is directed to advanced students and to active researchers in many psychological disciplines (cognitive, social, and clinical) who will appreciate this sourcebook for a deeper understanding of how higher order mental strategies may serve adaptive functions.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: Constructive Thinking and Resource Limitations
Introduction	1	(4)
Individual Differences in Attentional Resources and Social Cognition: Elaboration and Complexity in Representations of Others and Self	5	(34)
Michael Conway
Extending the Theory of Reasoning by Mental Models: Tests of New Predictions	39	(28)
Karl Christoph Klauer
Thorsten Meiser
Birgit Naumer
Multiple Representations and Individual Differences in Generating Mental Models: The Case of Text Comprehension	67	(28)
Stephan Dutke
Intelligence, Cognitive Strategies, and Arousal: Can We Control Non-Cognitive Factors that Influence our Intellect?	95	(28)
Edward Necka
Part II: Processing Constraints in Aging, Anxiety, and Depression
Introduction	123	(6)
Aging-related Constraints and Adaptations in Social Information Processing	129	(28)
Thomas Hess
Maintaining Competence in the Face of Resource Limitations: The Role of Schema Complexity in Aging and Communication	157	(18)
Mary Lee Hummert
Age Differences in Social Schematicity	175	(24)
Fredda Blanchard-Fields
Christopher Hertzog
Predictive Inferences: Basic Processes and Biased Potentiation by Anxiety	199	(24)
Manuel G. Calvo
Worry, Thoughts, and Images: A New Conceptualization	223	(22)
Joachim Stober
Impaired Systematic, Higher Order Strategies in Depression and Helplessness: Testing Implications of the Cognitive Exhaustion Model	245	(32)
Ulrich von Hecker
Grzegorz Sedek
Daniel N. McIntosh
Part III: New Methodologies in Individual Difference Research
Introduction	277	(6)
Capacity and Procedural Accounts of Impaired Memory in Depression	283	(26)
Paula Hertel
Thorsten Meiser
Cognitive Prerequisites for Scaleable Date: A Model of Impression Formation	309	(28)
Hubert Feger
Resource Limitations and Process Dissociations in Individual Differences Research	337	(30)
Reinhold Kliegl
Ulrich Mayr
Klaus Oberauer
Author Index	367	(12)
Subject Index	379