...Nature of Thought David Dawson PHL/251 26 May 2014 Abeba Salter-Woods Nature of Thought I think a lot about what it means to be in thought and how an outcome of an individual’s action is exemplified on how they took the time to actually think about what they are doing. In life, as humans, we are challenge through many different scenarios that requires us to put time and effort into thinking things through. That thinking process is the foundation of the aftermath of these scenarios. To me, human thinking is unique because we are one of a kind. I don’t believe that there is another species out there that is capable of producing results that we, as humans, are able to come up with. Other mammals might have brains that allow them to think, but not to the capacity or liking to what I believe is necessary to survive on this planet. According to “Www.ask.com” (2014), “Human thinking is unique because as far as we know, we are the only living creatures who can think and put our thoughts into action. We are the only ones who think before we act. We express our thoughts because it is human nature to want to explore and to learn.” Humans express their thought through their actions. To make are thoughts more realistic, we feel that we have to witness or perform it first hand. A thought will always remain a thought if not utilize. Most of the things that humans think about is normally fantasies and actions that need to or want to be performed, hence the reason on why we act on certain...
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...‘ Nature of Thougt PHL/251 August 8, 2013 Instructor Nature of Thought Thought plays a significant role in our day to day lives. From the time we wake up, to the time we go to sleep, we are thinking. Thinking, sensing, memory, perceptions, personal barriers, and thoughts are key influences to the nature of thought process. In this paper, I will describe my nature of thoughts and how it impacts my views of the thoughts process. Thinking is the practice of using one’s awareness to contemplate or reason about something. In order to think, one must use their senses. The sensing process allows us to use our senses to process our thoughts. There are five senses that everyone has, and they are sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Memory is another vital feature of thinking. Memory is the processes that one uses to gain, collect, recollect and eventually recover information. The medium of thinking it the final part of thinking. The medium is considered the most dynamic part of thinking. It medium is transmitted into the brain. Language is a part of the thinking medium. If a person is without language, they will be incapable of expressing or interpreting information to recall or to think. When I was 19 years old, I joined the United States Army. I was so nervous when it was time to leave my loved ones and go to basic training. I had heard so many horror stories about basic training. Even though I was nervous, I knew that God would give me the strength to make it through...
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...Nature of Thought From the time, we are born until the time we die thought plays a role in our lives. As we wake up in the morning, the brain is already starting to think about the day and what activities we will be doing. When asked what is thought? The first thing that comes out of most people’s mouth is thought is thinking. This is true however; a process must happen before one can think. Parts of this process are thinking, memory, perception, and perceptual blockers. In this paper, we will describe how the thought process works and how perception influences it. Describe Thinking Thinking is the mental and intelligent process that involves a person’s conscious part of the mind. When a person makes a choice to do something such as drive a certain way to work or intervene in a situation he or she is using the thought process. To think one must use his or her senses, perception, and memory. Excitement, fear, sadness, nerves, and happiness are some of the feelings that come from a person’s senses. In a movie, theater sitting outside the door we hear people scream walking in excitement and fear will set in. This is because a person’s memory has these emotions stored in its sensory section. Memory is the ability to remember emotions, thoughts, and perception from experiences that have happened in his or her past. Perception is the way we see and think about things. One’s perception is based on his or her beliefs and religion. Perception may interfere with a person’s memory and...
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...Nature of thought Pedro A Prieto PHL/251 Oct 27 2014 Philip Grochmal Nature of Thought Every human is unique. We all have our own thoughts and opinions and we are able to express ourselves in many different ways, as we are also able to learn from each other. No two humans think alike, it could be because of social backgrounds, cultural differences or it could be the way we see things. We as humans express ourselves in many different ways. We can express ourselves by talking, writing a letter, music and art. I think that we express our thoughts because we have something to say as individuals and we want our ideas to be heard, also we have the need to be recognized. “To base thought only on speech is to try nailing whispers to the wall” (Rosenthal, 1994). I try to enhance my memory by reading and remembering things from the past to keep everything fresh on my mind. Lately I have been trying some memory games like luminosity and brain academy, I found that my memory has improved in certain areas. Last year I thought my daughter was going to graduate in December but the reality was that she was not going to graduate on time, my perception was that I thought that her studies were on track. The reality was that she did not tell me that she failed one of her classes and she had to retake it in order to graduate. There was a difference between my perception and reality because I was misinformed. I felt empowered by my language because I was able to communicate...
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...of Thought Shofrin Ali April 5, 2015 University of Phoenix Abstract “You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. ” ― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" Nature of Thought What is thinking? Thinking is a mental behavior whereas ideas, pictures, cognitive symbolizations, or other hypothetical components of thought are experienced or manipulated. In this sense, thinking is inclusive of imagining, recalling, solving problems, and a variety of other procedures. (Psychology Dictionary, 2015) An example would be to picture a checkers player mentally trying out several moves before actually touching a checkers piece. What makes human thinking unique? Our intelligence and the ability to “think” makes us humans unique. Yes, animals can also think but they cannot verbalize their thoughts in a complex commutative language. Our thoughts give us ambition and curiosity that leads the human race to expand our culture, art, music, sports, and politics. When we think, we feel, and that makes us human. We can fight and die for the things that we believe in (freedom to pursue happiness, for example). How and why do humans express their thoughts? We use images, concepts, and languages to communicate our thoughts. We...
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...Nature of Thought I have always been fascinated by Socrates’ bold quote “The unexamined life is not worth living” (Kirby, 2007, para. 1). He is very powerful with his chosen verbiage in this quote. He does not diminish his statement by saying that the unexamined life is less meaningful than it could be; he clearly states that the unexamined life is not even worth living. Socrates was a big believer in personal and spiritual growth. In fact, he believed that was the sole purpose of human life. Humans must make the time to examine and reflect on life in order to broaden the understanding of it. I will explain the nature of thought by describing what exactly thinking is, identifying a situation in my life where I had an altered perception and the types of perpetual blocks that influence my views. Thinking Thinking is the ability for a person to put in perspective his or her thought processes (Smith, 2003). Processes that allow a person to develop views on situations based on his or her beliefs and past experiences (Smith, 2003). Thinking uses the data that one previously learned to process the results and put it into action. Humans are the only creatures that can do this, we can think before we react. There is a strong need to express thoughts because it is human nature to want to explore and to learn. The mind is like any other muscle in the body and must be stimulated on a regular basis in order to reach and maintain full potential (Kirby, 2007). The eBook, Thinking: An Interdisciplinary...
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...The Nature of Thought Human Sensing Name Surname Course Professor’s Name Date The Nature of Thought: Human Sensing Learning is a natural task for all human beings. We start learning from the first day of born. How to take a step, walk, run, play, talk, brush our teeth, eat food or how to use toilet paper and many more. There are some processes, which are learned from observations. The learning gained from exposures to stimulus learning. A person has to pass through a learning method, and there are eight types of learning methods; such as Extroverted Sensing, Introverted Sensing, Extroverted Intuiting and Introverted Sensing. When we think for a moment, we might see familiar objects in your environment feeling the touch of objects, smelling the aroma of foods or fruit, hearing the sound of music, and recognizing who is signing it, or the songs name is actually our memory. Like, when we close our eyes and if we smell a lemon cake, the smelling of the fresh lemons comes to our sense. All of these things help us recognize the objects and to interfere by the surrounding objects and people around us also. There are three process of memory: encoding, storage and retrieval. Encoding is processing information into memory. We automatically store encode information without being aware of it. Storage is where the information is stored and kept. One day my mom was baking something in the oven, and she wanted me to guest what it was from the smell. I thought it was a cake...
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...The four categories that help better categorize and understand elements of thought and reasoning are: Frame of reference - this includes our point of views and assumptions we make. We all make assumptions from our point of view. Identifying yours and seeking others points of view to strengthen the assumptions made. Each person's view can be bias with their assumptions on nationality, education, language, gender, age and religion. It is important to recognize that we reason from within this point of view, and identify the ways that it can interfere with good reasoning. Even the roles we play in the frame of reference can alter our assumptions. Our role as a pedestrian or motorist can affect our reasoning and be polar opposite of each other. Same is said with roles as a teacher and a student. These assumptions are unstated reasons, which are essential in arriving at the conclusion, but are not conclusions themselves. Details –information and concepts which can be observed either directly or indirectly by the senses; facts, data, laws, experiences, definitions, theories, and observations. It is important to consider the quality, amount, accuracy, and relevance of these pieces of data or experiences. Reasoning requires the support of facts, data, observations and experiences. Concepts are simply clusters of ideas, made up from facts and theories, and the result of abstract thinking. An essential key is to ensure one has gathered sufficient information and used clearly and...
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...Thought Leadership Thought leadership seems to be an innovative way to motivate a team to do better. In a sense, you put the power into their hands and watch what transpires. Let’s start with the leader of a group or organization. The leader must be strong, organized and very knowledgeable. The leader is responsible for bring the collective minds together and making sure that no matter how many things are thrown in their way, that the focus remains the same. This new way to view leadership was very unlikely several years ago as there was always the clear cut chain of command. The traditional process made things become very uniform and predictable , which does not leave room for growth and innovation. By following the old way of leadership, several people would not be trained or knowledgeable of how to move up through companies. In business today, they still do have programs where they select a few people to be in a management type training program, where you pretty much move a long at the specified company pace but something changed. Did some of these programs start to become redundant, or meaningless? The old system was based off of seniority instead of qualification. This means that there were specified people who were designated as “next in line” for any promotions, regardless of what work had been done. This in turn led to people having to “wait their turn” in order to get a promotion. This was also the same process for how to release employees during economic down...
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...Humans have a very unique way of thinking because we are able to imagine, feel emotion, think logical, and use our interest within our though process. Human thinking is unlike any other because humans can support the thought process with culture, interest, habits and so much more. Humans express their thoughts to show emotions and curiosity. Expressing ones thoughts is highly important; its how we show others how we feel. Most of the time we don’t even know that we are expressing ourselves we just do, its come to use as apart of our nature. Expressing ourselves does not have to be done with speech it can be done with writing, facial expression and just body language. For example you can often tell someone is upset by them having a red face, when sad they may have there head down, when interested in a topic they will be excited and enthused with good posture. Memory plays a huge role in how we think; in fact thinking and memory are paired. If a person has no memory or even a poor memory it makes it very difficult for that person to think effectively. There are a few ways to strengthen our memories. A mnemonic technique is a technique that seems to be very popular; this technique uses rhyming to help memorize something. If you think back to when you were a child I am sure one of your teacher taught you the days of the week or the months of a year to rhyming technique. Another technique is designing mnemonic, which is method location. This is where you take what you already...
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...Here are some random thoughts about cancer in general and and what I think I have observed in my own nine years of surgery, recovery, and chemo. Those who have been riding that tiger formany years surely have a sense of its presence that is different from the sense with which those with fewer years' experience regard it. It occurs to me that when cancer first is diagnosed that it is a challenge to know that the illness is cancer. Some can't even say the word for a few months. Some become angry and feel that they have been betrayed, because they think that they don't deserve to be saddled with that monster. Some have expressed anger at God for permitting them to have cancer. Some have told me they are angry at the world. Some even stay in a posture of denial that it's not really cancer, and that it will all be made well, or it will be discovered that it was a mis-diagnosis. This sort of delusion has been observed to last for several years with some. Some others just accept "the death sentence" and die. Not all who die have given up. There are too many whom I personally know that have died in spite of everything that could be done by them and for them, emotionally and medically. It seems to me that we have to accept the fact that cancer is not an immediately solvable illness, but it's more nearly so than it has been at any time in medical history. Recently I have read that those with religious faith have a better time of it than those who do not. One of the remarkable pieces...
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...Rosel, Jeannette Psych 100 Telecourse The Origins of Evil To many human beings when they hear the word evil what automatically comes to their mind is the devil. Evil to me means someone that does something morally wrong that can cause pain or injury to someone either physically or mentally. I have many examples of someone that I would consider evil. One of them would be a convicted murderer, a person who has taken the life of another human being that has cause pain to the family and of course to the one whose life was taken away. Another one would be Hitler he just has that evil reputation. He didn’t care if they were women, children, seniors he took their life’s and he didn’t care he had no feelings what so ever he caused so much suffering and pain on all of the families. Our environment and our upbringing have a lot to do with how someone becomes evil. Our environment such as the neighborhood that we grow up on or the group of people that we interact has some effects of how we can become evil. They always say be careful with who you hang out with because their bad behaviors will influence your own behaviors. For example if someone grows up seeing people getting shot at in the streets or just seeing violence one grows up thinking that its ok and that that’s the way how life is. They become that evil person that may end up taking someone else’s life. Our upbringing also affects it too if there is abuse in the family such as domestic violence and sometimes rape...
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...situations and those of others. The negativity and positivity degree in these perceptions, in other words, our thought patterns have a direct relationship with our level of competence and the success of our communication. Manz and Neck define the process of constructing thought patterns as self-leadership of thought. It is stated that with the application of specific cognitive strategies, individuals have control over their thoughts, and these thoughts have direct impact on their communicative performance. There are two ways of self-leadership of thoughts; challenging destructive thinking and building up constructive thoughts patterns. They define ten different kinds of destructive thinking with the suggestions of altering them into constructive thoughts. Labeling, having been discussed in our class as well, is one of the destructive thoughts hindering personal communication effectiveness. To clarify, assuming that a manager is lacking knowledge and awareness of individual different communication styles and has expressive-reflective communication style. She would inevitably evaluate one of the employees, who has an instrumental communication style with his being inadequate in his report or his indifferent nature of communication with her. She would label him with the words such as `unmotivated, inadequate, anti-social, etc.`. In all likelihood, these judgmental thought patterns have impact on her behaviors negatively and thus begin the cycle of negativity with poor conversational...
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...Nature of Thought Nature of Thought Thinking is a very complex process of the brain. Many factors contribute to thinking. Thinking can include reasoning, remembering experiences, and making rational decisions. Thinking involves an individual's subjective consciousness. Thinking includes use of cognition, sentience, consciousness, and imagination. Sense can lead to thinking which can lead to thoughts which can allow a person to express their needs, attachments, objectives, plans, commitments, and desires. Humans think it includes many steps. “I observe and I plan and I think and I strategize” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). The sensing process is the ability to sense something based on one or all of your 5 senses. “There is nothing in the mind unless it is first in the senses” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). Our most important senses for thinking is seeing and hearing. Based on our reading our senses do not operate effectively when we are sick, drowsy, or tired. Senses are the reason we have thoughts. Memory is the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved and subsequently recall information and past experiences. Memory gives us the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as well as to build relationships. It is the ability to remember past experiences, and the process of recalling previously learned facts, experiences, impressions, skills and habits. It is the store of things learned and retained from our activity or experience...
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...Critical Thought Process Critical thinking is the ability for an individual to be exposed to a subject, and be able to objectively form a rational conclusion about the subject. Learning the elements of thought and using a checklist for reasoning allows an enlightened critical thinker to gather the information needed to form a well-balanced conclusion on the subject matter. This is important because the thinker must gather facts, concepts, points of view and etc.; and to look at a situation from all sides and form an unbiased opinion about the issue. By raising in-depth questions, we are able to gather the necessary information to form well-thought out solutions and opinions to the problems and issues presented. By employing these methods of Critical thinking, we are able to develop into more advanced thinkers, who are able to analyze and deduce more thoughtful conclusions. Art is a great example of where critical thinking can be employed. By using the elements involved in critical thinking we are able experience art without bias. We are able to gather the information at hand and infer what message the artist is trying to convey. We must challenge ourselves to experience it from all aspects, and form an unbiased conclusion. We can also use the ideas associated with critical thinking in daily life. These ideas can and should be used in the workplace, education, and social life. Whenever I am presented with a new issue, I try look at it through critical thought, which...
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