Process Of Thinking Analysis

Thinking is the activity in the brain that gives us the ability to work, play, and communicate. Without the ability to think, we would be unable to accomplish what we want, or realize meaning in what we do. The process of sensing is how we gain our information. Most of our thinking comes from our five senses of sight, smell, touch, and hearing, and taste. The sensory input we gain from our senses is what leads us to thought. Memory is the brains ability to retain information. What we do and do not do can have effects on how well our memory functions. B vitamins and glucose are essential for our brains to function properly, whereas alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana have negative effects on our memory and brain function. The medium is connection …show more content…
My perception of the situation was that they were moving somewhere with more space to play and store their toys, such as dirt bikes, four wheelers, and motorcycles that they were always using. I thought that they were moving to a house with more space because they had a lot of toys like four wheelers and motorcycles, and had parties and people over constantly. I learned that what was going on was that the man had lost his job, and had been unable to find work so they were being forced to short sale their house for nearly half of what they originally paid for it. There was such a big difference in what was really going on and what I thought because I did not see the smaller things that were happening, only saw what I thought was going on. Language empowered the expression of my thoughts because I was able to communicate my sympathies when I learned what had happened. I was very sad to learn that they were not moving because they wanted to, but because they had to. I was so caught up in my own life being hard that I thought everyone else had it easy. I learned that my thinking was not fair to them because I had used my own perceptions of what their life was like. I learned not to let my own problems in life cloud my judgment of others, and to talk to people about their lives rather than make assumptions that I am the only one with …show more content…
The condition of our health and our level of stress can impact our ideas (Goodpaster, 2007). Personal barriers are having strong emotions attached to a topic. Barriers we have can influence our thought process, and we need to be careful to recognize these so they do not cloud our judgment. Thoughts are what we generate s a result of what we have gained through our perceptions; they can be based on feelings correct or incorrect information. An example of thought being influenced by barriers would be the difference between seeing a parent sitting on a park bench ignoring a child playing in a park and thinking they are a bad parent for not engaging their child, and thinking that they are a great parent for taking a break for themselves by letting their child play at the