Thinking
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Types of thinking
Introduction | Attention | Visual thinking | Verbal thinking
The different processes involved with thinking include
Attention, which is the way in which the mind allows conscious selective attention to specific things in the environment, affects awareness of the environment by filtering out non-attended things and can sometimes be "grabbed" unconsciously by salient or intrusive events
Visual thinking, which is the ability to perceive and think about visual objects and spatial relationships in two and three dimensions
Verbal thinking, which refers to the conversion of speech, words and symbols into language, and the use of established knowledge stored as episodes and categories in long-term memory
Attention is the way in which the mind allows conscious selective attention to specific things in the environment
Visual ability is required to relate the switches on a wall to the lights that they control
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