creators_name: Laasonen, Raimo J
creators_id: 06-27-44-1072
type: other
datestamp: 2007-02-19
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:46
metadata_visibility: show
title: On Causal Relations between Mental Organizer,
Action under Mental Processes, and Social
Environment

ispublished: unpub
subjects: behanal
full_text_status: public
note: Frankly I don't know where the paper suits best.
abstract: The purpose of the research was to study the relationships
between mental organizers, action under mental process, and social
environment through observation. A category system for each
behavior was constructed and data were analyzed with matrices to
find out kinds of root causes in causal dynamic. Reliability,
subjectivity, and validity of observation were assessed. The
coefficient of reliability was 0.937. The observation had about 11%
subjectivity, and the frequencies were in the categories where they
should be, mainly. Results indicate that there occurs causal
variety. The causes are not stable. As an entity, the results show
that it is possible to tackle mind processes through the causation.
Furthermore, the processes are in series but they drop by in a
parallel mode when the task becomes more difficult. However, the
mindamic seems to have the greatest possible number of the degrees
of freedom, simultaneously.
date: 2006
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Laasonen, Ed.D. Raimo J  (2006) On Causal Relations between Mental Organizer, Action under Mental Processes, and Social Environment.     (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5399/1/On_Causal_1.pdf