{"id":71912,"date":"2025-11-14T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/key-characteristics-of-higher-mental-functions\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:01:16","slug":"key-characteristics-of-higher-mental-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/key-characteristics-of-higher-mental-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Key characteristics of higher mental functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the main features of higher mental functions are:<br \/>\n1) Cultural-historical context: higher mental functions develop through interaction with the social environment, speech, education and cultural experience, and not only as a result of neurophysiological development.<br \/>\n2) Hierarchical structure: higher mental functions are organized on the basis of natural functions.<br \/>\n3) Compensability: due to neuroplasticity, higher mental functions can compensate for each other when a particular function is impaired or damaged, which allows the child to adapt and develop despite difficulties or delays in development.<br \/>\n4) Voluntariness: higher mental functions are consciously controlled.<br \/>\n5) Mediation: higher mental functions are carried out with the use of &#8220;psychological tools&#8221; \u2013 sign systems that are the product of the long socio-historical development of mankind. Among the &#8220;psychological tools&#8221;, speech plays a leading role.<br \/>\n6) Consistency: each function is connected with others, multi-level complex structures are formed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the main features of higher mental functions are: 1) Cultural-historical context: higher mental functions develop through interaction with the social environment, speech, education and cultural experience, and not only as a result of neurophysiological development. 2) Hierarchical structure: higher mental functions are organized on the basis of natural functions. 3) Compensability: due to neuroplasticity, higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-15-key-psychological-concepts-in-child-neuropsychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}