ajatusketjun
Ajatusketju, literally “chain of thought,” is a mental sequence of connected ideas that people use to reason, plan and solve problems. It describes the internal flow from initial observation to a conclusion, and it is often made visible when someone explains their reasoning or writes out steps for a task.
In psychology, ajatusketju is studied as part of cognition and metacognition. Think-aloud protocols capture it by
In artificial intelligence, chain-of-thought prompting refers to eliciting intermediate reasoning steps to improve performance on complex
Limitations include cognitive load, potential derailment, and the difficulty of verifying private internal steps. Some reasoning
See also: chain of thought, metacognition, think-aloud protocol, reasoning, problem solving.