Critical Thinking: Mental Processes and Perception
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Which of the following best describes thinking as a cognitive mental process?

  • Thinking depends on information from previous experience accumulated in memory.
  • Thinking reflects the essence and relationships between phenomena, things, or events. (correct)
  • Thinking reflects the external characteristics of phenomena, things, or events.
  • Thinking focuses on sensory input and perception of external phenomena.
  • How is thinking characterized as a cognitive mental process?

  • Indirect mental activity independent of previous experiences.
  • Reflects external characteristics of phenomena alone.
  • Direct mental activity depending only on sensory input.
  • Depends on information from previous experience accumulated in memory. (correct)
  • What distinguishes thinking from sensation and perception?

  • Thinking reflects external characteristics of phenomena.
  • Thinking focuses on sensory input and perception.
  • Thinking depends on information from memory.
  • Thinking reflects the essence and relationships between phenomena. (correct)
  • What is the key role of memory in the thinking process?

    <p>To accumulate previous experiences for indirect mental activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what way does thinking differ from sensation and perception?

    <p>Sensation and perception reflect external characteristics, while thinking reflects the essence and relationships between phenomena.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does thinking reflect in human consciousness?

    <p>The essence and relationships between phenomena</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does thinking depend on, according to the given text?

    <p>The information stored in the human mind about general laws of phenomena</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of sensory experiences in the thinking process, as per the text?

    <p>Sensory experiences initiate thinking, but thinking extends beyond it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does thinking relate to practical activity, according to the text?

    <p>Thinking depends on the social practical activity carried out by humans</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature of the relationship between thinking and personality, based on the text?

    <p>An individual's style of thinking is often determined by his style of life in general</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the critical role played by words in the thinking process, according to the text?

    <p>Words represent specific stimuli that act as signals of reality in its generalized form</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What allows the extraction of abstractions from tangible things, as per the text?

    <p>Sensory science</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary source from which basic laws can be gathered, as per the text?

    <p>Sensory experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What initiates the thinking process, according to the text?

    <p>Living sensory experience</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What reflects general relationships and principles, as mentioned in the text?

    <p>The general laws of phenomena</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does abstraction during the thinking process depend on?

    <p>Information obtained during practical activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is a refined mental activity that reflects objective reality in the same way as sensation and perception.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking depends on information from previous experience accumulated in memory.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is characterized by direct mental activity and does not rely on previous experience.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking reflects only the external characteristics of phenomena, things, or events.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is a process of reflecting the relationships and links between phenomena, things, or events in human consciousness.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is an independent mental activity that does not rely on any external stimuli or past experiences.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking depends on the information settled in the human mind about the general laws of phenomena.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is confined to living sensory experience.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Sensory science is essential for gathering basic laws from non-basic details.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is a reflection of the relationships and connections between phenomena, events, and things in a verbal, symbolic form.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is closely linked to human practical activity.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is entirely independent of an individual's style of life.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is a reflection of the various components that make up the structure of the personality.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking is a purely individualistic process and has no connection to practical activity.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Abstraction during the thinking process depends on the information obtained in the course of activity.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thinking depends on the information settled in the human mind about specific stimuli that act as signals of reality in its generalized form.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

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