Degree of consciousness goes with degree of mental activity.
The "focusing" of mental activityis more difficult to translate into neural terms.
A mental activity is typically, though not universally, conscious; and we can roughly designate as mental those activities of a living creature that are either conscious themselves or closely akin to those that are conscious.
It is, I say, direct and immediate, and it implies a wonderful amount of mental activity.
Here, in discrimination, we reach the lowest stage of mental activity.
Viewed in this way, therefore, even sensation involves a distinct reaction of the mind; it implies the first stage of mental activity.
The cow, as a phenomenon, is a construct, a product of mental activity, and woven out of states of consciousness.
Powell contended that the depth of a man's brain may be increased after maturity; muscular effort, mental activity, and a sense of responsibility being favorable to longevity, while idleness and dissipation are adverse to it.
The periodical headache is usually preceded by yawning, chilliness, languid, exhausted feelings, in others by peculiar emotional or mental activity.
It is a part of the great subconscious field of mental activity, and the greater part of its work is performed below the plane of consciousness.
It is quite worth while for one to become acquainted with this wonderful form of neuro-mental activity.
We may use the will in the direction of the control of the attention--the development and direction of voluntary attention--and thus actually control every phase of mental activity.
So it appears that physical labour not only does not exclude the possibility of mental activity, but improves and stimulates it.
The energy of my mental activity increased in proportion to bodily exercise, being freed from all that was superfluous.
The word interest stands in general for that kind of mental activity which it is the business of instruction to incite.
Facts, at least, must serve as material for methodical treatment, otherwise they do not enlarge even the scope of mental activity.
Mental activity has to be enforced, yet remains feeble at best, and it is only in after years, under pressure of necessity, that they acquire some facility for a limited sphere.
Not only does the law of habit operate in all fields of mental activity, but the characteristics which mark its operation are the same.
Thinking is an outgrowth of spontaneous activity; reasoning is but an application of the natural laws of mental activity to certain situations.
Let us consider the first of these three general forms of mental activity--the Intellect.
Every manifestation of mental activity is either that of the Intellect, the Feelings, or the Will.
And the activity of such thought resulted in a state of consciousness--for consciousness is mental activity, the activity of thought.
The human mind or consciousness, which is a mental activity, an activity of thought, is concerned with mixed thoughts of good and evil.
Mental activity results in the unfolding of ideas.
But, knowing now that consciousness is mental activity, the activity of thought, can we not see that harmony and immortality are within our grasp?
It seems never to occur without there being some evidence of mental activity, and, consequently, we are forced to conclude that it is of mental rather than of physical origin.
So far as mental activity in either state can be discovered by the observer, either the sleeper or the patient in stupor might be dead.
Mental activity is evidenced by a muscular resistiveness or retention of urine.
Just as physical activity is a characteristic of all living beings, so, from almost earliest infancy of human beings, is mental activity.
Imagination, as form of mental activity; in art; in science.
Even though they are not disturbed enough to be waked up, every noise that is registered in the brain affects the body, for it is now conceded that the body reflects every phase of mental activity.
The psychology which interested itself particularly in studying such divisions of mental activity as attention, will, habit, etc.
In Condillac's method there is an unmistakable intention to show how the several modes of mental activity could be made intelligible without losing sight of mental unity, and to exhibit their necessary interconnexion.
And in a measure they are right, for there is clearly a manifestation of two distinct phases of mental activity.
This is why the masses of people are such sheeplike creatures, never originating an idea of their own, nor using their own powers of mental activity.
Its operations consist in the raising of the Ego above the vibrations of the Unconscious Plane of mental activity, so that the negative-swing of the pendulum is not manifested in consciousness, and therefore they are not affected.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental activity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
