When we think in propositions, we usually think directly; direct thinking is everyday cognition such as knowing to proceed at green lights or knowing dentists' chairs are frightening.
It's really only when the story is done (like, in this case, within the last week or so) that I can do much direct thinking about what themes it might be taking on, and then — weirdly — the thematic stuff seems to have taken care of itself.
We have argued that processing biases operate pre-consciously to initiate intrusions, but continue to influence conscious content and direct thinking to increasingly negative possibilities.
In other words, directed thinking can reach a solution only by going through a properly ordered succession of "legitimate steps".
If such a sequence is aimed at the solution of a specific problem and fulfills the criteria for reasoning, it is called directed thinking.
Early in the 20th century, the French physician Édouard Claparède and the American philosopher John Dewey both suggested that directed thinking proceeds by "implicit trial-and-error".
We believe this paper contributes to the understanding of future expectancies and their relation with anxiety and depression, and will help to expand the availability of an instrument to assess future directed thinking.
To solve a mental puzzle, the brain's executive control network for externally focused, goal-oriented thinking must activate, while the network for internally directed thinking like daydreaming must be turned down to avoid interference – or so we thought.
Early in the 20th century, the French physician Édouard Claparède and the American philosopher John Dewey both suggested that directed thinking proceeds by "implicit trial-and-error". That is to say, it resembles the process whereby laboratory animals, confronted with a novel problem situation, try out one response after another until they sooner or later hit upon a response that leads to success.
In other words, directed thinking can reach a solution only by going through a properly ordered succession of "legitimate steps". These steps might be representations of realizable physicochemical changes, modifications of logical or mathematical formulas that are permitted by rules of inference, or legal moves in a game of chess.
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