Formulating and manipulating ideas, concepts, and images, whether goal-oriented or not, either alone or with others, with types of thinking activities, such as pretending, playing with words, creating fiction, proving a theorem, playing with ideas, brainstorming, meditating, pondering, speculating or reflecting.
d1630
Pretending
Engaging in make-believe activities involving imaginary persons, places, things or events.
d1631
Speculating
Manipulating ideas, concepts or images by guessing or assuming something based on incomplete facts or information.
d1632
Hypothesizing
Manipulating ideas, concepts or images involving the use of abstract thought to state assumptions or to test unproven facts.