How's it going God's Children,
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What’s the point of holding a ton of knowledge in my mind if I’m going to just let it drop out eventually after the test? Besides everything I need to know is already in a book. I can easily just look it up on Wikipedia or in the Library if I need to find it. There is no such thing as smart because anyone can shove a bunch of knowledge in their mind and get an A in a class. It’s a mind over matter thing. If you think you’ll fail, according to self-fulfilling prophecies as described in psychology, then you will fail. It’s as simple as that. Such as the thing called stereotype threat when people who are stereotyped into believing that they have a certain low aptitude such as Black people and the SAT then they freeze up and their minds clog up and they perform worst than their White peers.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Automaticity: The Human, The Cognitive Miser
To All God's Children,
-->During the day people have to make 4000 decisions. It’s easier for your brain to just go on autopilot and use the unconscious to make certain decisions. In which situations would a person prefer to rely on their unconscious choices? People are cognitive misers and attempt to rely on procedural or implicit memory to produce as much automatic thinking as possible. Cognitively, we can get very lazy once a task has become automatic.
-->During the day people have to make 4000 decisions. It’s easier for your brain to just go on autopilot and use the unconscious to make certain decisions. In which situations would a person prefer to rely on their unconscious choices? People are cognitive misers and attempt to rely on procedural or implicit memory to produce as much automatic thinking as possible. Cognitively, we can get very lazy once a task has become automatic.
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