Thinking
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Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or situation based on past learning and experience. |
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the thought process: do not confuse with MEDITATION, a relaxation technique; differentiate from COGNITION: see treeing & MeSH definition |
Thinking Categories.
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Concept Formation - A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, aspects, and relations of objects. |
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Decision Making - The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea. |
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Esthetics - The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful. It includes beauty, esthetic experience, esthetic judgment, esthetic aspects of medicine, etc. |
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Judgment - The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation. |
Thinking Definitions and Terms
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