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.
home.csulb.eduHuman beings have evolved two distinct systems for processing information. The first, the explicit system, is rule-based, can be expressed verbally, and is tied to conscious awareness. When the prefrontal cortex is fired up, the explicit system is usually turned on. But when the cold calculus of logic is swapped out for the gut sense of intuition,
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