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Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Decision making · Learning · Judgement · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Reasoning · Thinking - Cognitive processes Cognition - Outline Index
The following index of articles is provided as an overview of and topical guide to thinking:
Thinking – the mental process in which beings form psychological associations and models of the world. Thinking is manipulating information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions. A thought may be an idea, an image, a sound or even an emotional feeling that arises from the brain.
Introduction to thinking[]
- Main article: Introduction to thinking
Types of thought[]
- Awareness
- Creative processes
- Critical Thinking
- Decision making
- Erroneous thinking
- Learning and Memory
- Organizational thinking (thinking by organizations)
- Reasoning
Properties of thought[]
- Accuracy
- Cogency
- Dogma
- Effectiveness
- Efficacy
- Efficiency
- Frugality
- Prudence
- Pseudoskepticism
- Right
- Skepticism
- Soundness
- Validity
- Value theory
- Wrong
Fields of study[]
History of thinking[]
- Main articles: History of thought and History of reasoning
- History of artificial intelligence
- History of cognitive science
- History of creativity
- History of ideas
- History of logic
- History of psychometrics
General thinking concepts[]
Brain and brain biology[]
- Main article: Brain
- Action potential
- Acetylcholine
- Acetylcholinesterase
- Aging and memory
- Albert Einstein's brain
- Brain
- Central nervous system (CNS)
- Dendrite
- Dopamine
- Glial cells
- Human brain
- Long-term potentiation
- Nervous system
- Neurite
- Neuron
- Neuroplasticity
- Neuroscience
- Neurotransmitter
- Sensory neuroscience
- Synapse
- Synaptic plasticity
Intelligence[]
- Main article: Intelligence
Nootropics (Cognitive enhancers and smart drugs)[]
- Main article: Nootropic
- 5-HTP
- Adrafinil (Olmifon)
- Aniracetam
- Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
- Bacopa monnieri (Brahmi)
- Caffeine
- Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR)
- Centrophenoxine
- Choline
- Cholinergics
- Chromium
- Coenzyme q-10
- Coffee
- Creatine
- DMAE
- Ergoloid mesylates (Hydergine)
- Huperzine A
- Idebenone
- Inositol
- L-dopa
- Lecithin
- Lemon Balm (Melissa Officinalis)
- Lipoic acid
- Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
- Modafinil (Provigil)
- Oxiracetam
- Phenibut
- Phenylalanine
- Piracetam (Nootropil)
- Pramiracetam
- Pyritinol (Enerbol)
- Rhodiola Rosea
- Selegiline (Deprenyl)
- Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus)
- St John's Wort
- Sutherlandia Frutescens
- Tea
- Theanine
- Theophylline
- Tryptophan
- Tyrosine
- Vasopressin
- Vinpocetine
- Nicotinic acid (vitamin B3)
- Vitamin B5
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Yohimbe
Psychometrics (measuring intelligence and cognitive traits)[]
- Main article: Psychometrics
Artificial thinking[]
Organizational thinking[]
- Main article: Organizational studies
- Attribution theory
- Communication
- Concept testing
- Evaporating Cloud
- Fifth discipline
- Groupthink
- Group synergy
- Ideas bank
- Interpretation
- Learning organization
- Metaplan
- Operations research
- Organization development
- Organizational communication
- Organizational culture
- Organizational ethics
- Organizational learning
- Rhetoric
- Smart mob
- Strategic planning
- Systems thinking
- Theory of Constraints
- Think tank
- Wisdom of crowds
Personal thinking[]
Awareness and Perception[]
- Main article: Awareness
- Attention
- Cognition
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive map
- Concept
- Concept map
- Conceptual framework
- Conceptual model
- Consciousness
- Domain knowledge
- Heuristic
- Information
- Intelligence
- Intuition
- Knowledge
- Memory suppression
- Mental model
- Metaknowledge (knowledge about knowledge)
- Mind map
- Model (abstract)
- Option awareness
- Percept
- Perception
- Self-awareness
- Self-concept
- Self-consciousness
- Self-knowledge
- Self-realization
- Sentience
- Situational awareness
- Understanding
Creative processes[]
- Main article: Creativity
- Brainstorming
- Cognitive module
- Creativity
- Creative problem solving
- Creative writing
- Creativity techniques
- Design thinking
- Hypothesis
- Idea
- Image streaming
- Imagination
- Lateral thinking
- Six Thinking Hats
- Speech act
- Stream of consciousness
Decision making[]
- Main article: Decision making
- Choice
- Cybernetics
- Decision theory
- Executive system
- Goals and goal setting
- Judgement
- Planning
- Rational choice theory
- Speech act
- Value (personal and cultural)
- Value judgment
Emotional intelligence (Emotionally-based thinking)[]
- Main article: Emotional intelligence
- Acting
- Affect logic
- Allophilia
- Attitude (psychology)
- Curiosity
- Elaboration likelihood model
- Emotions and feelings
- Emotion and memory
- Emotional contagion
- Empathy
- Epiphany
- Mood
- Motivation
- Propositional attitude
- Rhetoric
- Self actualization
- Self control
- Self-esteem
- Self-Determination Theory
- Self motivation
- Social cognition
- Will
- Volition (psychology)
Erroneous thinking[]
- Black and white thinking
- Catastrophization
- Cognitive bias
- Cognitive distortion
- Error
- Exaggeration
- Fallacy
- Fallacies of definition
- List of fallacies
- Logical fallacy
- Minimisation
- Mistake
- Rationalization
- Rhetoric
- Straight and Crooked Thinking (book)
- Target fixation
Learning and Memory[]
- Main article: Education
- Autodidacticism
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive dissonance
- Dual-coding theory
- Eidetic memory (total recall)
- Emotion and memory
- Empiricism
- Feedback
- Feedback loop
- Free association
- Heuristics
- Hyperthymesia
- Hypnosis
- Hypothesis
- Imitation
- Inquiry
- Knowledge management
- Language acquisition
- Memory and aging
- Memory inhibition
- Memory-prediction framework
- Method of loci
- Mnemonics
- Neurofeedback
- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
- Observation
- Pattern recognition
- Question
- Reading
- Recall
- Recognition
- Recollection (recall)
- Scientific method
- Self-perception theory
- Speed reading
- Study Skills
- Subvocalization
- Transfer of learning
- Transfer of training
- Visual learning
Reason and reasoning[]
- Main article: Reason
- Abductive reasoning
- Abstract thinking
- Analogy
- Analysis
- Attitude
- Calculation
- Categorization
- Cognition
- Cognitive restructuring
- Cognitive space
- Cognitive style
- Common sense
- Concept
- Conjecture
- Concrete concepts
- Critical thinking
- Deductive reasoning
- Definition
- Estimation
- Evaluation
- Explanation
- Gestalt psychology
- Heuristics
- Historical thinking
- Hypothesis
- Idea
- Identification (information)
- Inductive reasoning
- Inference
- Instinct
- Intelligence
- Intelligence amplification
- Intentionality
- Introspection
- Knowledge management
- Language
- Lateral thinking
- Linguistics
- Logic
- Logical argument
- Logical assertion
- Meaning (linguistics)
- Meaning (non-linguistic)
- Meaning (semiotics)
- Mental calculation
- Mental function
- Metacognition (thinking about thinking)
- Mind's eye
- Mindset
- Multiple intelligences
- Multitasking
- Pattern matching
- Personality
- Picture thinking
- Prediction
- Premise
- Problem finding
- Problem shaping
- Problem solving
- Process of elimination
- Systems thinking
- Critical systems thinking
- Troubleshooting
- Proposition
- Rationality
- Reason
- Reasoning
- Self-reflection
- Sapience
- Semantic network
- Semantics
- Semiosis
- Semiotics
- Six Thinking Hats
- Speech act
- Stream of consciousness
- Syllogism
- Synectics
- Systems intelligence
- Thinkabout
- Thinking
- Thought act
- Thinking Maps
- Thinking Processes
- Thought experiment
- TRIZ
- Visual thinking
- Working memory
- Writing
Teaching methods and skills[]
- Main article: Education
- Active learning
- Classical conditioning
- Discipline
- Learning theory (education)
- Mentoring
- Operant conditioning
- Problem-based learning
- Punishment
- Reinforcement
Other[]
Organizations[]
- Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
- High IQ society
- Mega Society
- Mensa
- Mind Sports Organisation
Publications[]
- Positive Thinking Magazine
Scholars of thinking[]
- Aaron T. Beck
- Edward de Bono
- Tony Buzan
- Noam Chomsky
- Albert Ellis
- Howard Gardner
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Marvin Minsky
- Baruch Spinoza
- Robert Sternberg
See also[]
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- Hypervigilance
- Neurobiology
- Genius
- Nobel Prize
- Philomath
- Polymath
- Think tank
- Pulitzer Prize
- World Mind Sports Games
- Thinking
- Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
- Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (documentary)
- Causal thinking
- Center for Critical Thinking
- Computational thinking
- Convergent thinking
- Counterfactual thinking
- Critical systems thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical-Creative Thinking and Behavioral Research Laboratory
- Design thinking
- Directed listening and thinking activity
- Distributed thinking
- Divergent thinking
- Foundation for Critical Thinking
- Higher order thinking skills
- Higher-order thinking
- Historical thinking
- History of political thinking
- Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines
- Integrative thinking
- Lateral thinking
- Life Cycle Thinking
- LogoVisual thinking
- Irrationality
- Parallel thinking
- Partial concurrent thinking aloud
- Person-centred thinking
- Po (lateral thinking)
- Productive Thinking Model
- Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category
- Rethinking India's Past
- Rethinking Innateness
- Rethinking Marxism
- Rethinking Mathematics
- Rethinking Religion in India
- Say What You're Thinking
- School of Thinking
- Six Thinking Hats
- Social Thinking
- SolidThinking
- Speed thinking
- Stochastic thinking
- Straight and Crooked Thinking
- Strategic thinking
- Systematic Inventive Thinking
- Systems thinking
- The Art of Negative Thinking
- The International Research Forums on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy
- The Lake of Thinking
- The Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking
- The Magic of Thinking Big
- The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
- The Power of Positive Thinking (EP)
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Thinking 'bout Somethin'
- Thinking about Consciousness
- Thinking About Myself
- Thinking about the immortality of the crab
- Thinking About Tomorrow
- Thinking About You
- Thinking About Your Love
- Thinking Allowed?
- Thinking Allowed
- Thinking Allowed (PBS)
- Thinking Ape Blues
- Thinking Back, Looking Forward
- Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl
- Thinking Electronic
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Thinking in Java
- Thinking It Over
- Thinking like a mountain
- Thinking Machines Corporation
- Thinking machines (Dune)
- Thinking man's crumpet
- Thinking Maps
- Thinking of Home
- Thinking of Linking
- Thinking of Me
- Thinking of Woody Guthrie
- Thinking of You
- Thinking outside the box
- Thinking Pictures
- Thinking Plague
- Thinking (poem)
- Thinking processes (Theory of Constraints)
- Thinking Rabbit
- Thinking Room
- Thinking Skills Assessment
- Thinking XXX
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
- Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
- Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
- Underage Thinking
- Unified structured inventive thinking
- Vertical thinking
- Visual thinking
- What Was I Thinking
- What Were They Thinking?
- When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
- Wishful thinking
- Wishful thinking (disambiguation)
- World Thinking Day
- Reasoning
- Abductive reasoning
- Adaptive reasoning
- Analytic reasoning
- Association for Automated Reasoning
- Attacking Faulty Reasoning
- Automated reasoning
- Bold Reasoning
- Case-based reasoning
- Circular reasoning
- Commonsense reasoning
- Deductive reasoning
- Defeasible reasoning
- Diagrammatic reasoning
- Distributed multi-agent reasoning system
- Emotional reasoning
- Evidential reasoning
- Evidential reasoning approach
- Figure Reasoning Test
- Handbook of Automated Reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning aptitude
- International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
- International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
- Journal of Automated Reasoning
- Journal of Formalized Reasoning
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Logical reasoning
- Mathematics Mechanization and Automated Reasoning Platform
- Mental model theory of reasoning
- Model-based reasoning
- Moral reasoning
- Motivated reasoning
- Opportunistic reasoning
- Procedural reasoning system
- Proportional reasoning
- Psychology of reasoning
- Qualitative reasoning
- Qualitative Reasoning Group
- Reasoning Mind
- Reasoning system
- Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning (Sammamish, Washington)
- Scriptural reasoning
- Spatial–temporal reasoning
- Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning
- Textual case based reasoning
- The International Research Forums on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy
- Verbal reasoning
- Visual reasoning
- Lists
- List of neurobiology topics
- List of cognitive scientists
- List of cognitive science topics
- List of philosophical theories
- List of psychology topics
- List of cognitive scientists
- List of cognitive science topics
- Glossary of philosophical isms
- List of philosophical theories
- List of psychology topics
- List of cognitive biases
- List of emotions
- List of memory biases
- List of mnemonics
- List of neurobiology topics
- List of NLP topics
- List of nootropics (smart drugs)
- List of psychometric topics
- List of thought processes
External links[]
- Corballis, Michael C. The Uniqueness of Human Recursive Thinking. (PDF) American Scientist (May–June 2007). URL accessed on 2007-04-23. [dead link]
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