We explain what human thinking is and what types of thinking exist. Sciences that study thought.
What is thought?
Thought is the intellectual operation of an individual character that occurs from processes of reason. Thoughts are products that the mind makes, voluntarily from a rational command, or involuntarily through an external stimulus. All types of work, artistic or scientific, are formed from a mother thought that begins to develop and complement with others.
People's thinking has a number of characteristics. It is cumulative and develops over the weather, since it works from thought strategies that are added to each other. These strategies have the way of aiming to solve problems.
It not only happens that the thought is reflected in the language, but also configures the language itself. It is its mode of conservation, but it is also one of its areas of transformation.
Types of thinking
Thought can be presented in different ways, depending on the type of mental operation that the activity requires:
- Inductive thinking. It is the one that relies on a particularity and from there extrapolates it and transforms it into a generality. If something is true on some occasions, it will be true on similar occasions.
- Deductive thinking. It is the one that starts from a generality and applies it to each particularity. If a whole is known, the parts will obey the general laws of the whole.
- Interrogative thinking. It is the one used when one has a concern, it includes the way in which the question will be presented to effectively obtain the desired answer.
- Creative thinking. It is the source of all artistic achievement: it is not very easy to explain, but it has the particularity of not having limits and be open to the production of new things, of any kind.
- Analytical thinking. It is the one that categorizes the ideas, while the systemic is the one that interrelates them.
- Critical thinking. It is precisely the one who is capable of evaluating the paradigm with which all other thoughts are founded. It is about evaluating the way in which knowledge unfolds, ensuring greater autonomy at the time of the exercise of thought.
Sciences that study thought
Although all Sciences that are known are related and exist from thought, there are some that are dedicated in particular to study it.
- The logic. as science formal, is dedicated exclusively to the formulation of laws that govern human thought.
- The philosophy. came to answer many questions that were naturally asked by the human being, organizing the principles that govern knowledge of the world, human action and, among them, knowledge itself, which is substantially related to thought.
- Psychology. is the science that studies the human mind and its influence on conduct. Is discipline along with logic have been complemented by introducing the idea of lateral thinking. It refers to a class of thinking that can only be produced if it breaks with some rigid pattern, which is completely ingrained in our scheme mental.
- Psychiatry. Within medicine, it is responsible for analyzing modes of thought and studying and treating diseases of the mind.
Instinct and reasoning
The instinct (with which the animals, but also people in some cases) is considered a thought, despite not being consummated logically, but without thinking about it.
Although it is known that humans are the only ones who have the ability to reason, they are not the only ones who can think, since animals that have brains perform the action of "thinking" in a practical way and based on experience. The difference with people is that they do not have the ability to find the causes or consequences of their behaviors.