An introduction to reflective thinking.

An Introduction to Reflective Petri Nets

Evolution is becoming a very hot topic in discreteevent system engineering. Most systems are subject to evolution during lifecycle. Think e.g. of mobile ad-hoc networks, adaptable software, business processes, and so on. Such systems need to be updated, or extended with new features, during lifecycle. Evolution can often imply a complete system redesign, the development of new features and thei...

Parental reflective functioning: an introduction.

Reflective functioning refers to the essential human capacity to understand behavior in light of underlying mental states and intentions. The construct, introduced by Fonagy, Steele, Steele, Moran, and Higgitt in 1991, and elaborated by Fonagy and his colleagues over the course of the next decade, has had an enormous impact on developmental theory and clinical practice. This paper introduces th...

Animal Thinking an Introduction

The topic of this Strüngmann Forum—animal thinking—was not formulated as a question—“Do animals think?—but rather as a statement. One might question whether we have already gone too far by making such a statement, but this obviously depends on what we mean by “thinking.” If one believes that thinking refers only to mental processes accessible through human conscious recollection, then thinking ...

Thinking Critically An introduction

Critical thinking is an essential skill for students, academics and those whose thinking forms an important aspect of their jobs. Critical thinking is a way of seeing things and a descriptive term for the set of methods used to consider problems. It leads to an informed, aware, systemic, considered and logical approach to deciding what to believe or do; with arguments and conclusions that are m...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics