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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
intelligence is not one-dimensional,
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine …
the same. To a surprising degree, scoring well on a working-memory test predicts scoring well on a reasoning test, and a poor working-memory score predicts a poor reasoning score. (Working memory is not everything, however – recall that in Chapter 2 I emphasized the importance of background knowledge.)
Daniel T. Willingham • Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Factual Knowledge Improves Your Memory When it comes to knowledge, those who have more gain more. Many experiments have confirmed the benefit of background knowledge to memory using the same basic method. The researchers bring into the laboratory some people who have some expertise in a field (for example, football or dance or electronic circuitry)
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