According to Kolesnik, what is the reorganisation of concept?

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  2. Words
  3. Thinking 
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Option 3 : Thinking 
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Concepts are the categories of objects, events, or ideas with common properties. If you recognize a concept it will help you to generalize and relate to a particular category of events or objects and think logically in that direction.

Thinking: The term "thinking" embraces a wide range of cerebral activities. It subsumes reasoning, judging, conceding, imagining, and problem-solving. 

  • Thinking is a complex process involving the manipulation of information.
  • Without clear thinking, we cannot communicate clearly.
  • Some of the definitions of thinking are
  1. Ross: Thinking is a mental activity in its cognitive aspect.
  2. KolesnikThinking is the reorganization of concepts.
  3. Woodworth: Thinking is the mental exploration for finding out the solution to a problem.

Characteristics of Thinking:

  • Thinking consists of reorganization and restructuring of the material. 
  • Thinking gives rise to the discovery of new theories and systems. 
  • Thinking is Cognitive activity: Cognitive means something which involves the mental process of acquiring knowledge which thinking surely does.
  • When we want to make a decision, we sometimes think about the future such as the future consequences of the decision which is thinking forward and sometimes past to recall my experience and knowledge of a situation which is thinking backward. All these are part of the thinking process. 

From the above, we can conclude that According to Kolesnik, Thinking is the reorganization of concept.

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