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Decoding Your Thoughts: Understanding the Elements of Thinking

Explore the mental activity of thinking and how it involves understanding, processing, and communicating information. Discover how symbols, concepts, and prototypes play a vital role in categorizing objects, people, and events with shared characteristics. Delve into examples like holidays such as Christmas, sports like football, and reputable schools like Harvard.

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Decoding Your Thoughts: Understanding the Elements of Thinking

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  1. WHAT IS THINKING?

  2. Thinking • Mental activity involved in understanding, processing and communicating information

  3. Elements of Thinking • Symbols: an object or act that stands for something else • Concepts: a mental structure used to catergorize objects, people or events that share similar characteristics • Prototypes: an example of a concept that best exemplifies that concept

  4. Symbols

  5. Concepts & Prototypes • Holidays: Christmas • Sports: Football • Schools: Harvard

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