Mental Management

Mental management is a concept in cognitive psychology, developed in the 1970s by the French educator and philosopher Antoine de La Garanderie, that studies how people think and use their minds, with the goal of helping them use their mental activity more effectively. It rests on three parts, a project that sets out a learning strategy, evocation, the mental reconstruction of sensory perceptions, and mental gestures, specific cognitive operations a person carries out. La Garanderie identified different evocation profiles, visual, auditory and kinaesthetic, describing how different people tend to process and hold onto information. The approach covers five mental processes, attention, retrieval, comprehension, thinking and imagining, treated as deliberate operations a person can use to work more effectively. Though it began in education, mental management is now also applied in therapy, business and to individual functioning more broadly, teaching people how their own minds work so they can use them more efficiently. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/