Thought (in process)

OVERVIEW

This page is used to organize CRG work on observable entity and clinical findings related to thought.

MAJOR FUNCTION, PROCESS, AND OTHER OBSERVABLE ENTITY CONCEPTS

Major Concepts	Commonly Used Terms	SNOMED CRG brainstorming definitions

Major Concepts

Commonly Used Terms

SNOMED CRG brainstorming definitions

Thought function

is there such a thing?

brainstorm 1: A function that endows a person with the capacity to generate mental representations and to manipulate these representations within the brain Is there a thought function that is distinct from cognitive function?

brainstorm 2: A function that comprises the anatomic structures, physiological processes, and rules governing (constraining) physiological processes that initiate, perform, sustain, and terminate the generation and manipulation of mental representations. The thought process also comprises x (behavioral science) constructs/operations that initiate, perform, sustain, and terminate the generation and manipulation of mental representations.

Thought process

thinking, wondering, imagining, dreaming , reasoning, planning, calculating, figuring, deciding, conceptualizing, perceiving

brainstorm 1: A thought process class of processes realized (instantiated) by the thought function. The thought process is defined as the collection of temporally unfolding physiological and mental activities that instantiate the mental representations and manipulations in the brain along with the phenomenological experience of these representations and manipulations.

brainstorm 2:

Thought

an idea, an image, a belief, a realization, a memory

brainstorm 1: A thought is the summary or gestalt of the mental representation (and manipulation of that representation) either a single point in time, or over some temporal period that delimits a discrete thought from another (e.g., an idea, a calculation, the mental representation of the end state of a calculation, a plan, a conceptualization, a memory , etc.)

DEFINITIONS

Term	Source	Definition

Term

Source

Definition

Thinking

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Jan 22, 2021

thinking

n. cognitive behavior in which ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated. In this sense, thinking includes imagining, remembering, problem solving, daydreaming, free association, concept formation, and many other processes. Thinking may be said to have two defining characteristics: (a) It is covert—that is, it is not directly observable but must be inferred from actions or self-reports; and (b) it is symbolic—that is, it seems to involve operations on mental symbols or representations, the nature of which remains obscure and controversial (see symbolic process).

Thought

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 2, 2021

thought

n.

1. the process of thinking.

2. an idea, image, opinion, or other product of thinking.

3. attention or consideration given to something or someone.

Thought process

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 2, 2021

thought process

any of the cognitive processes involved in such mental activities as reasoning, remembering, imagining, problem solving, and making judgments. See thinking. See also higher mental process; mediation process; symbolic process.

Mental representation

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Jan 22, 2021

mental representation

a hypothetical entity that is presumed to stand for a perception, thought, memory, or the like during cognitive operations. For example, when doing mental arithmetic, one presumably operates on mental representations that correspond to digits and numerical operators; when one imagines looking at the reverse side of an object, one presumably operates on a mental representation of that object; when one repeats a phone number aloud while dialing it, one presumably operates on mental representations of the names of the digits. However, there is no consensus yet as to what mental representations might be. See thinking.

Think

Oxford English Dictionary

Accessed Jan 22, 2021

I. With emphasis on the action or process. The most general verb for expressing internal mental activity, excluding the simple perception of external things or passive reception of ideas. Essentially predicated of humans, but also (in any sense) in extended or figurative use, as of gods, animals, plants, or natural forces personified.

1. To form or hold in the mind (an idea, image, or intuition); to carry out (something) as a mental operation.

2. To turn over in the mind, meditate on, ponder over, consider.

3. To exercise or occupy the mind, esp. the understanding, in any active way; to form connected ideas of any kind; to allow or cause a train of ideas to pass through the mind; to meditate, cogitate.

†4. transitive. To experience, feel (an emotion) as a response to something, esp. an action or circumstance (regional in later use); †to think wonder (also ferly): to feel wonderment (obsolete).

5. To form or have an idea of (a thing, action, or circumstance) in one's mind; to imagine, conceive, fancy, picture.

Judgement

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

judgment

n.

1. the capacity to recognize relationships, draw conclusions from evidence, and make critical evaluations of events and people.

2. in psychophysics, the ability to determine the presence or relative magnitude of stimuli.

Plan

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

plan

n. in cognitive psychology, a mental representation of an intended action, such as an utterance or a complex movement, that is presumed to guide the individual in carrying it out. See preparation.

Reasoning

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

reasoning

n.

1. thinking in which logical processes of an inductive or deductive character are used to draw conclusions from facts or premises. See deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning.

2. the sequence of arguments or proofs used to establish a conclusion in this way. —reason vb.

Cognition

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

cognition

n.

1. all forms of knowing and awareness, such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, and problem solving. Along with affect and conation, it is one of the three traditionally identified components of mind.

2. an individual percept, idea, memory, or the like. —cognitional adj. —cognitive adj.

Conceiving, conceptualizing, conceptualization

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

conceptualization

n. the process of forming concepts, particularly those of an abstract nature, out of experience or learned material. See also abstract conceptualization; concept formation. —conceptualize vb.

Imagination

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

imagination

n. the faculty that produces ideas and images in the absence of direct sensory data, often by combining fragments of previous sensory experiences into new syntheses. See also creative imagination. —imaginary adj. —imagine vb.

Abstracting, abstracting

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Accessed Feb 3, 2021

abstraction

n.

1. the formation of general ideas or concepts by extracting similarities from particular instances. The precise cognitive processes by which this occurs remain a subject of investigation.

2. such a concept, especially a wholly intangible one, such as goodness or truth.

3. in conditioning, discrimination based on a single property of multicomponent stimuli. —abstract vb.

STAKEHOLDER GROUPS AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS

Name	Type	Description	Notes

Name	Type	Description	Notes

RESOURCES

Name	Type	Description	Notes

Name	Type	Description	Notes
DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III, DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-R	Nosology	Previous editions of the the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)	Useful for understanding the evolution concepts and specific terms used at different points in time
DSM-5, DSM-5 SCID	Nosology	Current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)	Useful for understanding terms and concepts as they are currently designed to be used by clinicians
ICD-10, ICD-10-CM	Nosology	Preview editions of the the International Classification of Disorders (ICD)	Useful for understanding the evolution concepts and specific terms used at different points in time
ICD-11	Nosology	Current edition of the the International Classification of Disorders (ICD)	Useful for understanding terms and concepts as they are currently designed to be used by clinicians
UMLS	Meta-Terminology	Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

PROJECT MILESTONES AND STATUS

ID	Objective	Action Item

ID	Objective	Action Item
1	Define scope of work	Identify the major concept(s) around which to organize a manageable project (scope of work) (artifact: mabh-crg concept plan) Complete the major concept table and iteratively update as project progresses (CRG to finalize the definition for SNOMED once all research has been completed)
2	Understand uses cases	Identify any non-standard use cases or pain points in research domain (artifact: mabh-crg use case document) Identify any non-standard use cases or pain points in clinical domain (artifact: mabh-crg use case document)
3	Understand major conceptualizations of the concept	Perform environmental scan to identify major theoretical models of construct/concept domain (artifact: mabh-crg theoretical model document) Perform environmental scan to identify disorders and clinical variables relevant to the concept domain (artifact: mabh-crg clinical model document) Perform environmental scan to identify existing explicit representations of concepts in the domain in terminologies (nomenclatures, nosologies, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, and ontologies) (artifact: mabh-crg umls analysis matrix, mabh-crg terminology matrix)
4	Establish contact with key stakeholders and other potential project contributors	Perform and environmental scan to Identify key stakeholders in the basic research, clinical research, clinical practice, and patient advocacy domain (artifact: mabh-crg stakeholder document) Create and implement a plan for engaging stakeholders willing to participate in the CRG for the duration of the specific concept review, either on calls or via discussion forum, or to provide the following: Stakeholder experience related to specific pain points or use cases in the domain Copies or screenshots of note templates, clinical notes, flowsheets, order sets, research protocols, other
5	Understand how concepts in the domain are currently represented in SNOMED	Review concepts in observable entity hierarchy Create dot diagram of current state Create observable entity spreadsheet Review concepts in clinical finding hierarchy Create dot diagram of current state Create observable entity spreadsheet
6	Perform gap analysis	Analyze concepts in observable entity hierarchy Create observable entity spreadsheet Create dot diagram of current state Perform review of dot diagram to identify potential duplicate, outdated, missing or inaccurately modeled concepts Update spreadsheet with changes including all defining relationships Analyze concepts in clinical finding hierarchy Create observable entity spreadsheet Create dot diagram of current state Perform review of dot diagram to identify potential duplicate, outdated, missing or inaccurately modeled concepts Update spreadsheet with additions or changes to concepts, including all defining relationships Identify missing concepts in other hierarchies (e.g., qualifier value, body structure) required to completely and accurately model observable entity and clinical finding concepts Create explicit, narrative definitions for all concepts
7	Create new and modify existing concepts in SNOMED	Submit request for changes through CRS system or via template worksheet
8	Disseminate information about changes to SNOMED for concepts in the domain

SITE MATERIALS

WORK PAGES

DISCUSSION THREADS

GRAPHICS AND GLOSSARIES