2. • Thought can refer to the IDEAS or arrangements of
ideas that result from thinking the act of producing
thoughts, or the process of producing thoughts.
• Although thought is a fundamental human activity
familiar to everyone, there is no generally accepted
agreement as to what thought is or how it is created.
• Somehow, thoughts arise in the mind from the
product of subconscious brain processing.
3. • Thinking allows humans to make sense of,
interpret, represent or model the world they
experience, and to make predictions about that
world.
• It is therefore helpful to an organism with needs,
objectives, and desires as it makes plans or
otherwise attempts to accomplish those goals.
5. • A way of looking at problems or situations from a
fresh perspective that suggests unorthodox solutions
(which may look unsettling at first). Creative
thinking can be stimulated both by an unstructured
process such as brainstorming, and by a structured
process such as lateral thinking.
6. • The thought process of selecting a logical choice
from the available options.
• When trying to make a good decision, a person
must weight the positives and negatives of each
option, and consider all the alternatives. For
effective decision making, a person must be able to
forecast the outcome of each option as well, and
based on all these items, determine which option is
the best for that particular situation.
decision making
7. • the ability of individuals to recognize their own and
other people's emotions, to discriminate between
different feelings and label them appropriately, and to
use emotional information to guide thinking and
behavior.
Emotional intelligence
8. The process of working through details of a problem
to reach a solution. Problem solving may include
mathematical or systematic operations and can be a
guess of an individual critical thinking skills.
Problem solving
