Very often communicating with people, we notice discrepancies in views and opinions. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most common is the individual features of thinking . Someone irritates the dirt on the streets after melting snow, and someone rejoices at it, seeing in it the onset of spring and the approaching summer. That is, people differently perceive and comprehend information, hence the differences in conclusions. Individual qualities of the person's thinking include such qualities as independence (the ability to solve the new problem discovered on their own), efficiency (the speed of finding the right solution), and flexibility of thinking (the ability to change the intended plan under the influence of the situation). But the differences are not only in varying degrees of expression of these qualities.
Individual features and types of thinking in psychology
In the process of cognizing the world, a person receives sensory experience, generalizing his observations. But for a more complete picture, the relationship between logic and sensory observation is required. Proceeding from this, the first feature of thinking is called its mediation, that is, the realization of some unknown things through already revealed truths. The second feature is the generality of thinking, that is, the ability to think in categories, relying on experience, rather than treating each phenomenon as completely new.
But it is worth noting that in psychology several types of thinking are singled out, and therefore its individual characteristics can be detected much more when taking into account particular cases. For example, in the case of concrete-effective thinking, observation is characteristic, abstract thinking can boast of a love for the search for regularities, and specifically, the desire to search for symbols to express thoughts is specific. If we talk about creative thinking, then researchers tend to distinguish 4 individual typological features.
- Originality of judgments, unusual ideas, a constant desire for new thoughts.
- Semantic
flexibility - the ability to look at an object from a new angle, to find a new unexpected application. - Shaped adaptive flexibility is the ability to change one's perception so as to reveal the sides of an object hidden from most people.
- Semantic spontaneous flexibility is the ability to generate ideas in a situation of uncertainty, without the presence of beacons for these solutions.
As you can see, the individual features of a person's thinking depend on the way he perceives and works with information, so building a conversation, it is worth considering the type of thinking of the interlocutor.