Structure of mental process.
The psychic system has the function to create a 'bridging' between the given state of the organism within its context, and the desired state. The way this relationship is established is decisive for survival, health and well-being, and thus indirectly also for reproduction and in a broader perspective, evolution of the species.

Reconstruction of the current state (collection, interpretation, recognition).
This reconstruction takes place based on continuously incoming data.

Tracing causes (retro diction , abduction, causal attribution).
The aim of this sub-process is to recover c.q. 'understand' how the current situation could have arisen, and find out what circumstances might be sufficient or necessary to change this situation.

Determining the expected state ( prediction, deduction).
Given the current situation or trend it is important to take upcoming events into account.

Determining the desired state c.q. target state; or desired change of course (evaluation, valuation appraisal motivation).
The function of this process is to know in which direction must be thought and acted from that point in time.

Determining appropriate actions , devising plan of action.
The next step is determining appropriate actions helping as much as possible to achieve the target state.

Initiating the next necessary step according to Action Plan.
The initiating of the next (necessary) action, embedded in the context of time and location, And mental and motor sub-goals.

Conclusions on similarities and differences across time and contexts (generalization, induction).
In every part of the above processes possibilities exist to infer and / or update general rules as guidelines ( induction, generalization).

Adjustments of memory contents (LTM acquisition, conditioning, learning / training).
In addition, for each of the above processes the possibility exists of storage learning experiences into memory. This is done by adding changes in the short-term model - newly acquired, processed or formed mental contents - in particular into the episodic and semantic memory-content.