User:Transhumanist/List of thinking-related topics

Brain and brain biology

• Action potential
• Acetylcholine
• Acetylcholinesterase
• Aging and memory
• Albert Einstein's brain
• Brain
• Central nervous system (CNS)

• Dendrite
• Dopamine
• Glial cells
• Human brain
• Long-term potentiation
• Nervous system
• Neurite

• Neuron
• Neuroplasticity
• Neuroscience
• Neurotransmitter
• Sensory neuroscience
• Synapse
• Synaptic plasticity

Intelligence

• Sapience

Leaders in thinking

• Aaron T. Beck
• Edward de Bono
• Tony Buzan
• Noam Chomsky

• Albert Ellis
• Howard Gardner
• Douglas Hofstadter

• Marvin Minsky
• Baruch Spinoza
• Robert Sternberg

Nootropics (Cognitive enhancers and smart drugs)

• 5-HTP
• Adrafinil (Olmifon)
• Aniracetam
• Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
• Bacopa monnieri (Brahmi)
• Caffeine
• Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR)
• Centrophenoxine
• Choline
• Cholinergics
• Chromium
• Coenzyme q-10
• Coffee
• Creatine
• DMAE
• Ergoloid mesylates (Hydergine)
• Huperzine A

• Idebenone
• Inositol
• L-dopa
• Lecithin
• Lemon Balm (Melissa Officinalis)
• Lipoic acid
• Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
• Modafinil (Provigil)
• Nicotine
• Oxiracetam
• Phenibut
• Phenylalanine
• Piracetam (Nootropil)
• Pramiracetam
• Pyritinol (Enerbol)
• Rhodiola Rosea
• Selegiline (Deprenyl)

• Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus)
• St John's Wort
• Sutherlandia Frutescens
• Tea
• Theanine
• Theophylline
• Tryptophan
• Tyrosine
• Vasopressin
• Vinpocetine
• Nicotinic acid (vitamin B3)
• Vitamin B5
• Vitamin B6
• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin C
• Yohimbe

Psychometrics (measuring intelligence and cognitive traits)

• Intelligence quotient
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Personality tests

• Scholastic Aptitude Test

Qualities of thought

For types of thought, see Thinking, below

• Cogency
• Effectiveness
• Efficacy
• Efficiency
• Frugality

• Ilities
• Promptness
• Prudence
• Right
• Soundness

• Validity
• Value (economics)
• Value theory
• Wrong

Thinking, artificial

• Artificial creativity

• Artificial intelligence

• Computer program

Thinking, organizational (thinking by organizations)

• Attribution theory
• Communication
• Concept testing
• Evaporating Cloud
• Fifth discipline
• Groupthink

• Group synergy
• Ideas bank
• Interpretation
• Learning organization
• Metaplan
• Operations research
• Organizational communication

• Rhetoric
• Smart mob
• Strategic planning
• Systems thinking
• Theory of Constraints
• Think tank
• Wisdom of crowds

Thinking, personal

Awareness

• Attention
• Cognition
• Cognitive dissonance
• Cognitive map
• Concept
• Concept map
• Conceptual model
• Consciousness
• Domain knowledge
• Heuristic

• Information
• Intelligence
• Intuition
• Knowledge
• Memory suppression
• Mental model
• Metaknowledge (knowledge about knowledge)
• Mind map
• Model (abstract)
• Option awareness

• Percept
• Perception
• Self-awareness
• Self-concept
• Self-consciousness
• Self-knowledge
• Self-realization
• Sentience
• Situational awareness
• Understanding

Creative processes and idea generation

• Brainstorming
• Creativity
• Creative problem solving
• Creative writing
• Creative thinking

• Creativity techniques
• Design thinking
• Hypothesis
• Idea
• Image streaming

• Imagination
• Lateral thinking
• Six Thinking Hats
• Speech act
• Stream of consciousness

Decision making

• Choice
• Cybernetics
• Decision
• Decision making
• Decision theory

• Executive system
• Goals and goal setting
• Judgement
• Planning

• Rational choice theory
• Speech act
• Value (personal and cultural)
• Value judgment

Emotional intelligence (Emotionally-based thinking)

• Acting
• Allophilia
• Attitude (psychology)
• Curiosity
• Elaboration likelihood model
• Emotions and feelings
• Emotion and memory

• Emotional contagion
• Empathy
• Mood
• Motivation
• Propositional attitude
• Rhetoric
• Self actualization

• Self control
• Self-esteem
• Self-Determination Theory
• Self motivation
• Social cognition
• Will
• Volition (psychology)

Learning and Memory

• Autodidacticism
• Biofeedback
• Cognitive dissonance
• Dual-coding theory
• Eidetic memory (total recall)
• Emotion and memory
• Empiricism
• Feedback
• Feedback loop
• Free association
• Heuristics
• Hyperthymesia
• Hypnosis

• Hypothesis
• Imitation
• Inquiry
• Knowledge management
• Language acquisition
• Memory and aging
• Memory inhibition
• Memory-prediction framework
• Method of loci
• Mnemonics
• Neurofeedback
• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
• Observation

• Pattern recognition
• Question
• Reading
• Recall
• Recognition
• Recollection (recall)
• Scientific method
• Self-perception theory
• Speed reading
• Study Skills
• Subvocalization
• Transfer of learning
• Transfer of training
• Visual learning

Reason and reasoning

• Abductive reasoning
• Abstract thinking
• Analogy
• Analysis
• Attitude
• Calculation
• Categorization
• Cognition
• Cognitive restructuring
• Cognitive space
• Cognitive style
• Common sense
• Concept
• Conjecture
• Concrete concepts
• Critical thinking
• Deductive reasoning
• Definition
• Estimation
• Evaluation
• Explanation
• Gestalt psychology
• Heuristics
• Historical thinking
• Hypothesis
• Idea
• Identification (information)
• Inductive reasoning
• Inference

• Instinct
• Intelligence
• Intelligence amplification
• Intentionality
• Introspection
• Knowledge management
• Language
• Lateral thinking
• Linguistics
• Logic
• Logical argument
• Logical assertion
• Meaning (linguistics)
• Meaning (non-linguistic)
• Meaning (semiotics)
• Mental calculation
• Mental function
• Metacognition (thinking about thinking)
• Mind's eye
• Mindset
• Multiple intelligences
• Multitasking
• Pattern matching
• Personality
• Picture thinking
• Prediction
• Premise
• Problem finding

• Problem shaping
• Problem solving
• Proposition
• Rationality
• Reason
• Reasoning
• Reasoning event
• Self-reflection
• Sapience
• Semantic network
• Semantics
• Semiosis
• Semiotics
• Six Thinking Hats
• Speech act
• Stream of consciousness
• Syllogism
• Synectics
• Systems intelligence
• Systems thinking
• Thinkabout
• Thinking
• Thought act
• Thinking maps
• Thinking Processes
• Thought experiment
• TRIZ
• Visual thinking
• Working memory
• Writing

Teaching

• Active learning
• Classical conditioning
• Discipline

• Learning theory (education)
• Mentoring
• Operant conditioning

• Problem-based learning
• Punishment
• Reinforcement

Thinking errors

• Cognitive bias
• Cognitive distortion
• Error
• Fallacy

• Fallacies of definition
• Field restriction
• Logical fallacy

• Mistake
• Rhetoric
• Target fixation

Thinking-related fields

• Cognitive psychology
• Cognitive science

• Neuroscience
• Operations research

• Phisophy of mind
• Psychology

Other

• Genius
  • List of geniuses
• High IQ society

• Mensa
• Nobel Prize
• Philomath

• Polymath
  • List of polymaths
• Pulitzer Prize