1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,000 What do we mean when we say that someone is "thinking"? 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Cognitive psychologists define thinking as manipulating mental representations 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 of information in order to solve problems and draw conclusions. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000 The most common form of thinking involves mental representations called concepts — 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:25,000 categories of objects or ideas grouped according to properties that they share.