Sublime

FIGURE 5.1: Our simple model of the mind. Source: © Greg Culley.

In fact, by age one, infants use their own early cultural knowledge to figure out who tends to know things, and then use this performance information to focus their learning, attention, and memory. Infants are well known to engage in what developmental psychologists call “social referencing.” When an infant, or young child, encounters something nov

Each student was allocated to one of three groups. The first group had a discussion about a social issue for ten minutes. The second undertook tasks such as a comprehension test and a crossword puzzle. And the third, the control group, watched a ten-minute extract from Seinfeld. All the students then undertook tests of their mental processing and w

Deming believed—and study after study supports his belief—that, in general, people want to do good work. They want to be proud of what they do and what they have accomplished. Company practices, processes, and culture get in the way of that, demoralizing them.

Externals persisted longer and got more points when the task of assessment was left to an adult than when they were answering questions from the machine on their own.

Michael Murphy, a Stanford graduate who co-founded the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast in 1962.

l’Américain Jerome Bruner (1915-2016), a réalisé des travaux complémentaires à ceux de Vygotski

The text involved two sub-topics: measurement of intelligence, and structure of intelligence.