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Understanding: A Psychological Process

Understanding is a psychological process related to comprehending abstract or physical objects through concepts and thought. It requires the ability to think about something and deal with it adequately. Understanding comes from conceptualizing an object to a certain degree and having a model that can explain and predict it. Components of understanding include cognition, which transforms sensory inputs, and affect, which refers to feelings and emotions.

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Understanding: A Psychological Process

Understanding is a psychological process related to comprehending abstract or physical objects through concepts and thought. It requires the ability to think about something and deal with it adequately. Understanding comes from conceptualizing an object to a certain degree and having a model that can explain and predict it. Components of understanding include cognition, which transforms sensory inputs, and affect, which refers to feelings and emotions.

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Understanding
FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia

Understanding(alsocalledintellection)isapsychologicalprocessrelatedtoanabstractorphysicalobject,such
asaperson,situation,ormessagewherebyoneisabletothinkaboutitanduseconceptstodealadequatelywith
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abilitiesanddispositionswithrespecttoanobjectofknowledgesufficienttosupportintelligentbehavior.[1]
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measure.

Contents
1Examples
2Understandingasamodel
3Componentsofunderstanding
3.1Cognitionandaffect
4Religiousperspectives
5Seealso
6References
7Externallinks

Examples
1. Oneunderstandstheweatherifoneisabletopredictandtogiveanexplanationofsomeofitsfeatures,etc.
2. Apsychiatristunderstandsanotherperson'sanxietiesifhe/sheknowsthatperson'sanxieties,theircauses,
andcangiveusefuladviceonhowtocopewiththeanxiety.
3. Apersonunderstandsacommandifhe/sheknowswhogaveit,whatisexpectedbytheissuer,andwhether
thecommandislegitimate,andwhetheroneunderstandsthespeaker(see4).
4. Oneunderstandsareasoning,anargument,oralanguageifonecanconsciouslyreproducetheinformation
contentconveyedbythemessage.
5. Oneunderstandsamathematicalconceptifonecansolveproblemsusingit,especiallyproblemsthatarenot
similartowhatonehasseenbefore.

Understandingasamodel

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GregoryChaitin,anotedcomputerscientist,propoundsaviewthatcomprehensionisakindofdata
compression.[2]Inhisessay"TheLimitsofReason",hearguesthatunderstandingsomethingmeansbeingableto
[Link],weunderstandwhydayandnightexistbecausewe
haveasimplemodeltherotationoftheearththatexplainsatremendousamountofdatachangesinbrightness,
temperature,[Link]
[Link],weunderstandthenumber0.33333...bythinkingofitasonethird.
Thefirstwayofrepresentingthenumberrequiresaninfiniteamountofmemorybutthesecondwaycanproduceall
thedataofthefirstrepresentation,[Link]
tocompressdata.

Componentsofunderstanding
Cognitionandaffect
[Link]
[Link].

Religiousperspectives
InCatholicismandAnglicanism,understandingisoneoftheSevengiftsoftheHolySpirit.

Seealso
Activelistening
Awareness
Binah(Kabbalah)
Chineseroom
Communication
Epistemology
Hermeneuticcircle
Informationallistening
Ishindenshin
Listoflanguagedisorders
Meaning(linguistics)
Naturallanguageunderstanding
Nous
Perception
Thought

References
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1. Bereiter,Carl."EducationandmindintheKnowledgeAge"([Link]
2. Chaitin,Gregory(2006),TheLimitsOfReason([Link]

Externallinks
Understanding([Link]
PhilPapers

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