Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Proc...

Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes

The document discusses the limitations of introspection in understanding cognitive processes, highlighting discrepancies between reported thoughts and actual mental mechanisms across various experiments and contexts.

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The person who has access to his unconscious processes and mines them without getting mired in them can try new approaches, can begin to see things in new ways, and, perhaps, can achieve mastery of his pursuits.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
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I think it is more helpful to talk about the underlying processes: spontaneous thought, or the decoupling of attention from perception, which is what happens when our thoughts separate from our perception of the environment. Both these processes take place during mind-wandering and daydreaming.
from The science of a wandering mind by Tim Vernimmen
Charlie Gedeon added
When we interrupt the instinctual simplifying, organizing, and categorizing processes of our brain, we create a mental space for added layers of complexity and meaning. Our thoughts become more nuanced and textured. Our senses are awakened and engaged.
from Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren by Cliff Guren
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from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks

from The science of a wandering mind by Tim Vernimmen

from Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren by Cliff Guren