The definition of thinking:

In its simplest definition is: a series of mental activities by the brain when it is exciting, to be greeted by one or more of the five senses.
It is in the broad sense: a search for the meaning of the stay or the news.
And begin to think the individual is usually when they do not know what must be done precisely.
It is the understanding of mere justice and injustice, hatred and the courage to activities carried out by the brain when thinking activities are invisible and intangible, and is visible in the fact that products do not think.

The difference between thinking and thinking skills:

College of the thinking process on the way to address the mentality of the sensory input, and translated information for the formation of ideas, or judged by its reasoning, a process which is not fully understood, and include recognition and treatment of past experience and to embrace and informed intuition.
The thinking skills are specific operations and use of the practice in order to address the information, Kmharrat define the problem and find the assumptions other than those mentioned in the text, or assess the strength of the evidence or the prosecution.
To clarify the relationship between thinking and skills can be compared to the berm between thinking and playing tennis (tennis).
Vlabp tennis composed of many specific skills such as: throw the beginning, and the bow variant ... etc. These all contribute in determining the level or quality of play.
And thinking skills as well as consisting of a multi-master all of them contribute to the effectiveness of the process of thinking, and requires integrated thinking skills within a holistic strategy in a position to achieve a certain goal.

The characteristics of thinking:
Thinking is the following:
1 consider the conduct of a meaningful, does not occur in a vacuum or without a goal.
2 the behavior of evolutionary thinking is becoming increasingly complex with the growth of the individual, and the accumulation of expertise.
3 thinking is effective, which is based on the best possible information available.
4 perfect in thinking is not possible in reality, and thinking can be very effective training schoolchildren.
5 consists of the overlap of thinking, which includes elements of the time "period of reflection" and the situation or occasion, the theme is about thinking.
6 different patterns of thinking occurs (verbal, symbolic, spatial, form ... etc.).

Levels of thinking:

Researchers believe that the level of complexity of thinking is due mainly to the level of difficulty and abstraction in the task required or what is known as Palmthir.
Therefore dispersed in the area between the two is thinking are:
1 basic thinking or a lower level.
2 thought the vessel, the boat is level.
It contains a number of basic thinking skills, including knowledge (acquired and remember), and observation and comparison and classification, the mastery of skills necessary to move before it becomes possible to deal with the levels of thinking the boat.
The thinking composite reliable as follows:
1 can not determine the route which is adequate in isolation from the process of analyzing the problem.
2 includes a vehicle or multiple solutions.
3 contains a sentence.
4 use multiple criteria.
5 needs to be effort.
6 establishes the meaning of the situation.

The evolution of thinking in children:

Develops in children with emotion thinking of environmental and genetic factors, and the development of mental processes, and building knowledge on a regular basis, or pace, and the increasingly complex and intertwined with the progress in the level of maturity and learning, one researcher suggests that the perfection of thinking is elusive, but a satisfactory solution of every problem is is not possible, and that the person who is expected to resolve every problem and take the right decision every time a person is not realistic.

Rating thinking in terms of effectiveness:

Thinking can be classified in terms of the effectiveness of two types:
First, effective thinking: a type which are achieved:
1 follow the methods and sound methodology is reasonable.
2 using the best information available in terms of accuracy and efficiency.
This kind of thinking required to understand the basis for the training methods on the one hand, and skills development, on the other, in addition to that there must be a number of trends that could be developed personal training program to strengthen the skills of thinking, and most important of these trends as follows:
1 mile to determine the theme or problem.
2 taken to monitor the well-informed.
3 the use of reliable sources of information.
4 search of several alternatives.
5 search for the causes and presentation.
6 careful review of different views.
7 openness to new ideas and input.
8 ready to amend the situation.
9 sentencing when the availability of data and evidence.

Second thought ineffective:
It is thought that the methodology does not follow a clear and precise, and based on the Mkhaltat, or false assumptions, or non-relevant arguments.
These are some of the behaviors associated with non-effective to consider:
1 deception and abuse of propaganda to direct the debate away from the subject.
2 resort to force in order to abort the idea.
3 misuse of language intentionally or unintentionally to move away from the heart of the problem.
New 4 in decision-making be appropriate.
5 recourse to resolve the situation on the right or wrong way, with the possibility of the existence of several options.
6 develop hypotheses contrary to reality.
7 over-simplification of complex problems.

Composite types of thinking:
1 critical thinking.
2 creative thinking.
3 to solve the problem.
4 decision-making.
5 over the cognitive thinking.
It includes every type of thinking skills prior to distinguish it from several others.