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Action of using one's mind to produce thoughts, or covert
symbolic responses to stimuli. Theories of thought and thought
processes have concentrated largely on directed thinking,
including problem solving. At the beginning of the 20th century,
researchers focused on studying mental associations. Theorists
of Gestalt psychology in the 1920s and '30s believed the
elements of thought to be in the nature of patterns elicited
from experience. Today these elements are often regarded as bits
of information undergoing processing. See alsocognitive
psychology, information processing. Variants of THINKING
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