what are the kinds of higher mental processes?

-- jeffry mercado (jeffry1985@yahoo.com), August 26, 2002

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Normally, the "higher" mental processes include things like thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, and the like. The term distinguishes them from "lower" processes such as sensation and perception. Attention is, in the "middle," being considered, I suppose, a higher *mental* process generally, but a lower *cognitive* one. Consciousness is sometimes included among "higher" mental processes, but the field of consciousness is such a morass that it's hard to tell whether it occurs, at least minimally, in virtually every form of animal life, or whether it is reserved to "higher" mammals.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), August 26, 2002.