Luria on Thinking

c13 p. 323 Working Brain

Luria engages in historic analysis of constructs and concludes that thinking, ought to be considered as a complex act with component parts, and then it can be considered. Word meaning, the basis of ideas, develops in childhood and gradually becomes abstracted.

Luria states "psychologists are unanimous" that thinking arises when a subject arises for which he has no ready made inborn or habitual solution. Then, thought requires, successively, the restraining of impulsive responses, investigation of the conditions of the problem, analysis of its components, recognition of their most essential features and correlations with each other. Finally is the selection of one from alternative and the creation of a scheme for the performance of a task, or strategy formation. Finally is the choice of methods and operations to put the scheme into effect, the tactics of the solution. The last step is actually the comparison of the results with the original conditions of the task.