A study on thought in problem solving according to Sergei L. Rubinstein's contributions: psychological contributions to the education of thought

Abstract

The  study  of  human  thought  and  its  forms  is an    important    theme    for    psychology.    A psychological  conclusion  to  the  subject  is  that thinking  expresses  itself  in  problem  solving. Psychological investigations reverberate in the foundations   of   teaching   methods   based   on problems,     according     to     the     theoretical reference adopted. An important psychological and    pedagogical    aspect,    which    deserves constant  theoretical  attention  by  educators,  is the  understanding  of  the  movement  or  the course   of   thought   in   the   resolution   phase, examined  in  its  dialectical  development.  An important  contribution  of  psychology  in  this sense   comes   from   psychologist   Sergei   L. Rubinstein.  This  work  is  a  brief theoretical and bibliographical study with the objective of systematizing  Rubinstein’s  ideas  about  how the    thought    course    forms    itself    in    the resolution  phase  of  a  given  problem.  Based  on the  data  analyzed  we  have  concluded  that Rubinstein elaborates an understanding of the mental  path  in  the  phase  of  problem  solving, in which the thought starts from a problematic situation and develops in its formulation, in an intellectual    movement    that    implies    the correlation between the known data and what one seeks to know in a problem.