Simple thinking skills .. and examples thereof

An example of simple thinking

• Students apply the exercises after understanding the lesson.
• Student retrieval of information in the exam.
• Distinguish between important and unimportant information.
• Characterize the child to his family members.
• Extract and test results.
• Save the names of friends, family and acquaintances.
• Solving mathematical problems after memorizing and understanding the law.

Definition of thinking skills

Thinking skills  are the mental activities that are used to process information, make connections and make decisions, and create new ideas. People's thinking skills are also used when you try to understand experiences, solve problems, make decisions, ask questions, make plans, or organize information. Someone who has thinking skills but not everyone uses them effectively Effective thinking skills are developed over periods of time Good thinkers see possibility, while others only see obstacles and barriers Good thinkers are able to relate different factors and are able to relate them to each other They are able to develop new and unique solutions to problems.

Thinking refers to the process of creating a logical chain of connections between elements of information. Often thinking happens automatically, however there are times when you think consciously and it may relate to how to solve a problem or make a decision, through which thinking can connect new experiences and integrate them into understanding And the perception of how things work.

Examples of the simplest thinking skills are  learning facts, remembering, focusing, collecting information, organizing, analyzing, analyzing, communicating, merging, assembling, evaluating, and producing ideas. Explain it as follows:

• the focus

It means paying attention to the selected and important information and ignoring the unimportant information and stimuli, such as the student choosing the information that the teacher emphasizes and ignoring the information that is not useful to him and that the teacher ignores.

• memory

Remembering is one of the patterns of thinking and means retrieving stored information from memory, such as retrieving the information to be mentioned in the exam and its writings.

• Data collection

One of the simple skills that all individuals perform is to bring relative information to the conscious mind necessary for cognitive processing, such as collecting information by researchers and experts to prepare studies and scientific research.

• Organization

The organization process ensures that information is arranged so that it can be used more effectively, such as people organizing ideas and research information to reach results, or children arranging information to reach an informational outcome that later forms their awareness and reference memory.

• analysis

The analysis process includes dismantling information by examining parts and relationships so that  the organizational structure can be understood , such as studying information and ideas, meaning not taking ideas and information as they are, for example, students solving simple mathematical problems, for example, or solving symbols.

• Connection

Link and connect information and items in order to obtain a complete end result of information, such as merging and linking information and collecting details to solve a math problem or understand a lesson.

• merge

It is about linking and integrating information to better understand the relationship between information.

• Evaluation

In the sense of evaluating the reasonableness and quality of ideas and materials in order to provide opinions, such as testing the results reached by the researcher at the end of his research.

• Production of information and ideas

Producing information, ideas and products in an ideal way to display them, such as presenting the results of scientific research and making recommendations after confirming and testing the results.

Simple thinking skills

Simple thinking is one of the levels of thinking and it is called basic thinking. This level of thinking includes many skills that are represented in knowledge, its acquisition and remembering. It also includes observation, comparison and classification, which are skills that the learner must master and proficiency in order to be able to move to confront the levels of complex thinking effectively.

• Note

Observation is the process in which a person uses his senses in order to identify the characteristics of things and phenomena in an attempt to name them correctly, and it is the skill that is always used during scientific research, which begins with simple observations of some phenomena that deserve study and research.

• Category

Classification is the process by which specific observed qualities and properties are used in order to divide things or parts into different groups or classes.

• Comparison

Comparisons are made by finding similarities and differences between two or more concepts after describing each of them comprehensively. It is based on two types of open comparison, where questions are formulated in a way that diverges thinking, while closed comparison questions are formulated in a way that focuses thinking on specific aspects.

• arrangement

Depending on a specific criterion, concepts and events are arranged in accordance with this criterion.

• Summing up

Summarizing is done by realizing the essential differences between important and unimportant knowledge and experiences without ignoring all the common elements, the ideas included, the information presented or seen, and this is also the reduction of words and vocabulary while preserving the integrity of ideas from deletion and distortion in order to reach the core of the matter.

• Data collection

It is a stage that includes the skills of observation and asking questions.

• analysis

Characteristics or parts of an object are identified, and relationships and patterns neutralized by dividing items into small important parts and describing each.

• elicitation

It is a method of thinking based on studying the general rules and applying them to specific issues in order to reach results, i.e. preferring something from one whole to another.

• induction

Induction is considered a method of thinking in which facts and examples are transformed into law and rule, i.e. the collection of parts into a whole.

• Forecasting

Predicting possible or probable outcomes from an event or group of events.

• inference

It is the process of eliciting evidence from texts or images through  the questions posed  using linguistic or mental keys.?

• Search and investigation

For example, students search for information to answer the question posed, while arranging and organizing data and information.

• The relationship of the part to the whole

It defines the relationship between the function of the parts and the whole and how the part affects the function of the whole.

• Series

It generally uses three specialized types of chronological order and process analysis, causal chains, ie historical episodes and events.

• Distinguish between opinion and fact

It is the differentiation between something that can be proven either by logical proof and two personal points of view that express the feelings or beliefs of the speaker, with whom we may agree or not.

• interpretation

Discovering and identifying the causes that lead to the emergence of an event or phenomenon.

• Organization

Is the ability to arrange ideas to reach the goal.

Characteristics of the thought process

There is a set of characteristics and features that characterize the thinking process. These features are:

• Thinking is an intangible mental activity.
• Mental activity includes a set of cognitive processes and skills.
• Thinking arises from external factors and is carried out according to internal factors.
• Thinking is a process that can be developed by training in its basic skills.
• Thinking can be observed, measured and its growth recognized.
• Thinking has many forms and types, whether simple or otherwise, such as creative and complex thinking skills, and others.
• Thinking is a purposeful behavior that takes place in certain situations with a specific goal.
• Thinking is a developmental behavior that changes in quantity and quality according to the experiences acquired by the individual.