It is interesting how the author describes how the mind sees something abnormal to something completely normal. When something cement does not fit into the current context of activated ideas, the system detects an abnormality.
Memory is a factor that can lead us to allusion because you remember things that were previously been showed to you recently.
When you are trying to say something true it is not enough just to say it but it's better for you to print it in bright blue or red. Cognitive ease The words evoke memories which convey emotions and consequently produce face reactions.
When you have first been recently related with words that means food, and the letters SO_P comes up, it's more likely you'll answer it means SOUP, but if you have seen the word wash or such as it's more likely you'll answer it is SOAP. When people are being watched they act differently and improve their behavior. In this chapter the author describes the situation when one in walking and task which requires a lot of concentration is given that is very difficult for us to continue walking and solve the problem. Our instinct often it is to stop and think about it or even sit down when it requires more concentration. He describes this state which is flow that the person is so concentrated in the task that he or she looses attention of other things going on around his surroundings (like in the previous chapter that he mentions when someone is given a specific task, the eye becomes blind to the other things that are not specific in the task). I wonder how many things are happening in our surroundings and because we are so worried about the present and our issues that we don't pay attention to the beauty of our surroundings. Flow, separates the two forms of efforts: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.
Self control requires attention and effort What is the difference between Ego depletion and cognitive business An effort of self control becomes tiring and this person is more often the one that will give up earlier than normal when faced with a difficult cognitive task. One of the main functions of system 2 is to monitor and control thoughts and actions of system 1, allowing to be expressed in behavior or suppressing or modifying others. Often people put to much faith in their intuition and rarely check if its correct. Rational people often are skeptical with their intuitions, and are more likely to put more effort and concentration when a problem is presented. Those who are not rational, tend to speak whatever comes to their mind first without giving it a second thought. System 1 is impulsive, and intuitive System 2 is capable of reasoning, and it is cautious (for some people this is laziness) The conclusion is that this both distinctions is that people have different minds and different personalities. System 1:
Operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2: Allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. We can be blind to the obvious and also blind to our blindness. System 2 is in charge of self-control, is to try to overcome the impulses of system 1 Pupils show an index current rate at which mental energy is used. System 2 habits may become part of system 1, where you by instinct know things. (like driving, playing chess etc) It transforms that skill and stores it in the other side of the brain. Hypo campus synthesize, and is the process to store the memory. |
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