Nature of Thought

Nature of Thought

Nature of Thought

Jennie Anderson

University of Phoenix

Dr. Mary Wilson

December 12, 2010

Nature of Thought

Most often people don’t realize it but they are constantly thinking through out the day. Thinking is a process of using our mind to integrate information and retained knowledge to consider something carefully or to complete a simply process. We think without even knowing we are thinking. There are several forms of thinking; some examples of these would be critical thinking, creative thinking, logical thinking, and convergent thinking.

The Sensing Process

Sensory is most thought of by sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Hanschu (2009), “Sensory processing involves the brain’s ability to organize and make sense of different kinds of sensations entering the brain at the same time” (para. 1). When we hear, feel, touch, or taste, it requires our minds to process information on how, and what about the object or noise. We gather data through one or several of our five senses. The sensing absorbs data in a literal, concrete fashion.

Define Memory

Cherry (2008), “Memory refers to the processes that are used to acquire, store, retain and later retrieve information. There are three major processes involved in memory: encoding, storage and retrieval” (Memory - Psychology Definition of the Week, para. 1). Memory improves are thought process, when something new is learned, our memory relates old information to the new information, and branches out to connect it to other related information within your memories. Memory and Thinking go hand in hand. You can’t do one without the other.

Describe the Medium

Ruiz-Smith (2007),”Our Thinking Medium, language is the interpretative medium for the input, the remembering, sorting, creating, judging and deciding, comprehension and independence” (para. 2). How we use language to carry our thoughts across to other people is the power of thinking. Having good knowledge of...