The Working Brain

Abstract

Researching "Thinking, Language, and Intelligence" I found that any one of the three could be a life long study if one was to truly understand the topic. Not having a lifetime to prepare my research paper, I turned to the Internet and was amazed to find no publications covering all three topics. Even more so, that no publications covered each topic completely as a whole but instead covered individual aspects of the topic. Concluding the research for my paper along with class discussions has forced me to realize there are no set boundary's in Psychology and the study of it is truly as complex as the human brain. In this paper it is my intention to present a generalized view of Thinking, Language, and Intelligence without underdescribing the content or value of each subject.

Introduction

Through out history man has marveled at his accomplishments rarely giving thought to the 3 pounds of tissue the human brain containing circuitry more complex than the planets phone systems. (Myers) The human brain has allowed man to create and shape his world for survival and mere recreation. Although psychology studies all aspects of brain activity, the working brain, Thinking, Language, and Intelligence make man the Homo sapiens or wise human he is.

Thinking

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor." Victor Hugo (1802-1885) we call it thinking or reasoning, psychology calls it cognition. The act or process of knowing. Cognition includes attention, perception, memory, reasoning, judgment, imagining, and speech. Attempts to explain the way in which cognition works are as old as psychology itself. With the advent of psychology as a discipline separate from philosophy, cognition has been investigated to a more decisive state.

Pretense or pretending such as pretend play in young children is so familiar and natural that it's easy to over look how remarkable and puzzling it is. Describing a much more cognitive account of pretense begins with presenting a number of real examples of pretense. These examples would bring out several features of pretense found in any adequate theory. In some theories of pretense, representations are contained in a separate workspace or a Possible