off topic here but something I am interested in. I would like to know more about the different types of thinking.

What are the different categories of thinking? Here are some I have included:

1. critical thinking

2. creative thinking

3. logical thinking - deductive and inductive logic

4.??? 

 

Thanks. 

Back in the early 1970s, yes 30+ years ago, I participated in a study on thinking that helped define the earliest chess programs. The major emphasis of the study was thinking "types". The other type I would classify as "patterns". Logical positions verses illogical ones in order to narrow the search trees. Back then, people could "prune" a tree faster since they could see patterns faster than a computer.

Many thanks, I would never thought pattern recognition as thinking but I realized it is true. We used it all the time in chess and in life. Not always deliberate (eg reading handwritting) but sometimes we have to think like categorization of data, identifying the behaviour patterns of our kids or stock price, etc.

 

Social awareness is one of them. Hmm, also maybe problem solving (which I would consider different than logic).

Pattern recognition is what the human brain does and it does it well.

 

Lousy wrote:

1. critical thinking

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 What makes thinking critical.  I remember growing up and always having to do "critical thinking" exercises in various classes and I never knew what they were supposed to be or how it differed from any other kind of thinking.

I never did critical thinking in schools from my country. I wish I did.

 I thought critical thinking would be the techniques used to question any form of statements. It would also involve the ability and techniques to separate facts from opinions. To identify some assumptions in the statements.  Also to weigh the facts.

 

 

logical, lateral, creative, philosophical,