Evolutionary thinking and speech evolved in man separately, but in the end we came to their practically indissoluble symbiosis. Thinking and speaking are equivalent helpers of each other, although sometimes they are treated one by one.
When speech does not need thinking?
Sometimes we talk, without thinking, sometimes we think silently. Children often talk without mental restraint, and at the same time, they can be engaged in visual thinking without speech accompaniment. Scientists often think, while not using speech, and only after formulate the result of their judgments in verbal form.
How does speech help thoughts?
Speech, first of all, acts as a means of thinking. Thought is born with the help of language and is made out through speech. If it were not for the speech (oral or written), thought would be easily forgotten, but thanks to the person's ability to pronounce their opinions aloud or to write down, later one can again return to a concrete thought and think it over, develop and deepen it.
They say who clearly thinks, he clearly states. The more clearly a person's thinking, the more intelligible he can explain. Conversely, speech can act as a means of developing thinking. The more refined a person expounds the same thought, the more skillfully he selects words for its design, the clearer the thought becomes for him.
When does thinking need to be spoken?
The psychology of the connection between thought and speech is such that when the task posed to the thinking process is simple, we do not really need speech. If thinking passes without difficulty, a person does not need words to think, he uses speech only at the end to express reasoning.
The same rule applies and vice versa. For example, women often need speech for thinking. It can be difficult for them to formulate a thesis concisely and clearly, and until they say all the thoughts that this conclusion contains, the conclusion can not be made.
That is, women often turn to speech only to understand themselves, their feelings and express one single thought.
However, man's thinking and speech work in harmony with men. Not less than women, they need oral design of their thoughts in order to concentrate on individual elements. This becomes the guarantee of a developed, consistent, systematic thinking.
Memorization and concentration
It is often possible to notice schoolchildren who, for understanding the mathematical problem, pronounce it aloud. This is a typical example of the interaction of thinking and speaking, when a person needs to speak to concentrate his brain on a task, to understand what is required of him.
The same is done by adults. For example, in order to remember a thought, say it out loud. Let's say you are told to come to the doctor's office on the 11th. If you do not write this down, you can easily forget. But if you ask and say aloud "on the eleventh day," you will certainly save the data in memory.
Disorders of thought and speech
Violation of thinking and speech occurs with the majority of mental disorders, including schizophrenia. Sometimes, it is these disorders that help to make the final diagnosis.
Consider the basic disorders of thinking and speech that occur in the mentally ill:
- neologisms, "own" speech of the patient with new words and new meaning;
- blurred thinking, lack of clear thoughts;
- feeling of loss of control over thoughts;
- inability to abstract thinking - a person takes jokes seriously, literally, loses the ability to draw analogies and parallels;
- when chronic forms of mental disorders arise verbigerization - a mechanical repetition of words and phrases;
- The loss of the ability to separate the secondary and most important.