Thinking, commonly known as "thinking", "thinking" and "thinking", is the cognitive process of the human brain to objective things. People's understanding of objective things can be divided into two stages-perceptual stage and rational stage. For example, we know a person first by knowing his name, appearance, listening to him and watching him do things, and then gradually get to know him more and more until we know his personality characteristics and spiritual realm. This has gone through two stages: perceptual knowledge and rational knowledge. The core factor that enables us to complete this cognitive process is thinking. In the stage of perceptual knowledge, people should also "think", but that is preliminary. Only by obtaining a large number of perceptual materials about objective things can people understand the essential characteristics of things through analysis and synthesis. Therefore, thinking is mainly manifested in the stage of rational understanding.
Thinking ability is a person's thinking ability. The level of thinking reflects the level of a person's intellectual activities. It manifests itself in different ways:
Independence: People with strong thinking ability must be good at independent thinking. If you encounter difficulties in your study and life, you can think independently and find the answer. Even if he consults others and consults information, he thinks independently.
Flexibility and agility: People with strong thinking are always quick-witted, flexible and changeable, and can quickly recognize and solve problems.
Everyone knows the story of "Cao Chong calls an elephant": someone asked young Cao Chong to call an elephant, which is a big problem for a child. But after quick and flexible thinking, Cao Chong soon found a way. Let the elephant stand on the boat first, mark the water level, then pull the elephant down and put stones on the boat until it reaches the original water level mark. The weight of a stone is equivalent to the weight of an elephant. Cao Chong's thinking ability is very strong, and all the above characteristics are shown.
Logic: strong thinking, rigorous and scientific thinking, impenetrable and fragmented, and the conclusions drawn have sufficient reasons and evidence, and the cause and effect are clear.
Comprehensive: strong thinking, not one-sided, can look at things from different angles as a whole.
Creativity: strong thinking ability, able to put forward creative opinions on problems, and he can think of things that others have not thought of.
Relational thinking is a new science-thinking science first put forward by Qian Xuesen, a famous scientist in China. There are so many books on this subject that it is difficult for us to make a comprehensive introduction here. Conditional parents can find books to read in this field.
Parents can make a difference by improving their children's thinking ability.
Cultivate children's habit of independent thinking.
When children encounter problems, they always want their parents to give them answers. Some parents really told their children the answer, which solved the problem at that time, but in the long run, it is not good for developing their children's intelligence. Because parents often do this, children will inevitably rely on their parents' answers instead of looking for answers themselves, and it is impossible to develop the habit of independent thinking.
Smart parents, facing their children's questions, tell them to find ways to answer them. That is to inspire children, how to think and analyze a problem, how to use the knowledge and experience they have learned, how to read books, how to consult reference materials and so on. When the child comes to the answer by himself, he will be full of sense of accomplishment, improve his thinking ability and generate new motivation.
Keep children in problem situations.
The problem is the introduction of thinking. The brain is active when faced with problems frequently. When children love to ask all kinds of questions, parents should discuss and explain these questions with their children. Parents' initiative has a great influence on their children. Especially the questions that parents can't understand. By consulting others, consulting materials and thinking repeatedly, a satisfactory answer can be obtained. This process can best improve children's thinking ability. Some children don't like to ask their parents questions after they are one to two years old. Parents should take the initiative to raise some questions for discussion, including some difficult problems encountered by the family. Sometimes, parents should put down their airs and ask their children some questions they don't understand. These practices are conducive to the development of children's thinking.
Collect brainstorming stories and materials with children.
There are many stories and materials with brains, some are true stories, some are fables and some are popular science books. Parents and children put them away together and put them in the corner of the bookcase. In your spare time, you can browse these materials and discuss issues of interest with each other.
Take part in a family quiz.
During the holidays, parents and children take turns to be hosts, and whoever hosts will prepare competition topics and set up small prizes or other rewards. In order to enhance the atmosphere, friends and relatives or other small partners can be invited to participate. The preparation process and the competition process are both psychological training processes.
Discuss and design ideas to solve practical problems and participate in the process of solving problems.
In children's life, study and family life, there are often various problems to be solved. Parents should guide their children and discuss, design and implement solutions with them. In this process, we need to analyze, summarize, reason, imagine and imagine solutions and procedures. This is of great benefit to improve children's thinking ability and ability to solve practical problems.
In short, in order to improve children's thinking ability, parents often think of creating an atmosphere of thinking and encouraging children to think more, ask more questions and practice more. The more you use your brain, the smarter you are. In order to improve children's thinking ability, we should not only pay attention to the learning process, but also think of some methods other than homework.