In listening to Daniel Kahneman talk about intuition I get the sense that he’s an advocate for developing an environment that accepts intuition as a fundamental feature of human behavior, and accommodates its flaws and strengths.
Kahneman, and other cognitive psychologists, describe a two-part process of thought involving intuition and reasoning.
System 1 (intuitive) is: fast, [...]
last week in class we looked at the cognitive psychology effect called priming
here’s a definition:
Priming refers to a increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience. Because priming it believed to occur outside of conscious awareness, it is different from memory that relies on the direct retrieval of information. Direct retrieval utilizes explicit memory, [...]
on the downtown A a large man was shuffling around. he started to sit down and began talking – which lead me to believe he had found someone he knew.
he had a clear, resonant voice that cut through the rattle and noise of the train. i went back to reading a book. [...]
while doing some research on self-experimentation (actually identity-experimentation is more accurate, i’m interested in developing some insight regarding understanding my own [and by extension one's own - we're very similar, you and i] affective relationships with environmental elements [a la Kurt Lewin's Force Field Theory], and my cognitive biases- new year’s resolution…) i found [...]
My cat kept eating a plant in my apartment that made her vomit. I realized what was going on and moved the plant where she can’t get at it. Apparently some of its leaves were left under a chair and she found them this morning, ate them, and about twenty minutes later let [...]