Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.
The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
the mental manipulation of words and images, as in concept formation, problem solving, and decision making. (310)
Ability to problem-solve, 'whole brain process.' Types of thinking: convergent and divergent. How, and on what basis, do we think? Piaget. Innate abilities of organisation, and adaptation of schema (mental representations of stimuli). Adaptation of schema - assimilation (child's general interpretation of world), and then accommodation (specific interpretation). Disequilibrium to equilibrium. Bruner. Child develops modes of representation or internal forms of language to think about/problem solve in its world. Enactive mode 0-2, thinks/problem-solves using gestures, facial expressions, laughing, crying. Iconic mode 2-5 uses mental images to remember people, objects. Semantic mode age 7+ , use of language to think/deal with world. Key to intellectual growth.
In terms of ordinary parlance, thinking has to do with reasoning or cogitating in one's head. The great psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and depth psychologist Carl Jung used the word ‘thinking' in a very specific sense.
endowed with the capacity to reason
"One of the four psychic functions." Please see either "feeling" or "intuition" as a guide. It is the rational function that employs the mental process of interpreting what is perceived. (Compare feeling.)
One of the four psychic functions according to Jung's model. It is the rational capacity to structure and synthesize discrete data by means of categories and conceptual generalizations.
To formulate mentally, to decide by reasoning.
One of the four basic "personality" functions in Jung's theory of "types". A rational process whereby judgment is based on what a thing is. (Contrasts with "feeling".)
The ability to imagine or represent objects or events in memory and to operate on these representations.