Thinking
Of higher cognitive process. May also be referred to as cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought and thought process.
The process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought".
This concept's ID is @1~31380
Problem Solving
- problem solving
The thought processes involved in solving a problem.
- convergent thinking
Thinking that brings together information focussed on solving a problem (especially...
Also contains
- reasoning
Thinking that is coherent and logical.
- explanation
Thought that makes something comprehensible.
- preparation
The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening;...
- construction
The creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object...
- consideration
The process of giving careful thought to something.
- excogitation
Thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it.
- divergent thinking
Thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of...
- free association
A thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a se...
- mysticism
Obscure or irrational thought.
- ideation
The process of forming and relating ideas.
- line of thought
A particular way of thinking that is characteristic of some individual or group.
- thread
The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together; "I couldn't...