Table of Contents
1. Four Stages of Information Processing
- Chunking
- Group the information based on the learned patterns.
- The working memory
- Analysis
- Analyze the relationships between chunked information.
- The working memory
- It is important to chunk and analyze the information as fast as possible, because it will free up the spaces within the working memory for more new information.
- Threading
- Put things into a context nearby.
- The long-term memory
- Grand Threading
- Find the place of that little thread within the tree of the entire knowledge.
- The long-term memory
2. Dual Process Theory
The ability to activate the reasoning (or the focued thinking) is seem to be genetic.
Generally, the mathematical reasoning is within the realm of reasoning, and the social acuteness is within the realm of intuition.
Learning is a process in which the system 2 is used intensely and repeatedly in order to expand the long term memory. This process is laborious and people don't find it appealing. The teacher and colleages are there to push a student to engage in such activities.
2.1. Intuition and Reasoning
Proposed by Daniel Kahneman
Intuition (System 1) is fast and rough and reasoning (System 2) is slow and precise.
2.2. Focused and Diffused Thinking
Focued thinking deals with locally connected entities and the close connections between them, while diffused thinking can make creative connection between unrelated entites.