Sentence examples for formal thought from inspiring English sources

Norris says that all thought exhibits a certain structure – formal thought, which is the act of thinking, and objective thought, which is the object of the thinking.

A pattern of interruption or disorganization of thought processes is broadly referred to as formal thought disorder, and might be described more specifically as thought blocking, fusion, loosening of associations, tangential thinking, derailment of thought, or knight's move thinking.

Wensing, T. et al. Neural correlates of formal thought disorder: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.

A study applying the single case approach to formal thought disorder in schizophrenia.

Previous studies demonstrated a deficit of the attribution of intentions to others among patients having formal thought disorder.

Altogether results suggest that automatic semantic spreading activation is unimpaired in schizophrenia patients without formal thought disorder.

It could be argued that a suicide attempt cannot occur in the absence of suicidal ideation [ 38]; however, it is possible that some participants perceive their suicide attempt/s as impulsive acts that occurred in the absence of formal thoughts about suicide.

Teaching students to think spatially, then, requires considering how embodied actions can promote and "… [nurture] the practical, emotional, or imaginative states that are thought to undergird formal analytical thought" (Waller, 2014, p. 147, emphasis added).

The results indicated significant associations between formal operational thought and both fluid reasoning and TOH-R performance.

Hierarchical multiple regression analysis confirmed that formal operational thought as demonstrated on the LRT was a stronger predictor of TOH-R performance than was fluid intelligence.

Chomsky was of a mathematical turn of mind and was interested in language as a formal system: thought, in the most abstract sense of the word.