Thinking And Reasoning

Question 1

What is thinking?

Answer 1

1. Manipulating mental representations
2. Manipulating concepts
3. Comparing/ contrasting/ evaluating the contents of your mind
4. Coming to conclusions
5. Pondering

Question 2

What is a concept?

Answer 2

A way of representing meaning to help us to classify things in the world

Question 3

What is a ‘mental representation’?

Answer 3

A structure in your cognitive system that captures information about the outside world