In the Thinking section of the chapter, I enjoyed reading the Building Blocks of Thought piece. I thought it provided a good foundation in understanding what activities occur when we are thinking about something. Creating mental images, I think, are a must, especially when it comes to details related to a task which requires making a physical object. I think we need a mental representation of the object so we can picture what we want the result to be.
In the Thinking: Problem Solving and Making Decisions section, I was able to relate to the Trial and Error piece of this chapter. In my current job function, I preform User Acceptance testing; this is a form of the Trial and Error strategy. I agree with the chapter in that he Trial and Error strategy can be very time consuming, but is necessary to ensure the desired results are being returned. Also from the chapter, I was also able to acknowledge that myself and some of my work peers experience functional fixedness. We are so use to following a certain process or procedure a certain way, that we block new insight to a more efficient way of doing things. I know being more opened minded can help lower the chances of functional fixedness interfering with finding a more efficient solution.
The Language piece of the chapter went over how language has its own syntax, and this I found interesting. The syntax (set of rules for combining words) piece shed some light for me on why people who speak different languages use the same words but may communicate something completely different than what I am trying to communicate- it’s all about the set of rules for that particular language.
I thought the Intelligence section was interesting in how it posed the question of what intelligence really is, and how intelligence testing has been used in the past. I was surprised to learn that intelligence testing was being