What are the challenges for someone who has a lesion on the left parital region?
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may have trouble noticing the food on the right side of her plate. She may
eat only the food on the left side of her plate, and she might even complain
that she didn't receive enough food
,bottleneck theories
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proposed a similar narrow passageway in human information processing. In
other words, this bottleneck limits the quantity of information to which we
can pay attention.
Define "creativity." How is creativity related to problem solving? Do Demonstration
10.8. Describe Guilford's divergent production approach. Describe the three
observations listed by Matlin and Farmer on the nature of creativity.
Comment: Wisdom is another concept that is often discussed in the context of
creativity. Both wisdom and creativity are valuable traits that often enhance an
individual's problem-solving ability. Like creativity, defining wisdom has been a
conceptual challenge. An interesting belief about these concepts is that creativity is
more likely to be associated with youth, whereas wisdom is more likely to be
associated with age. What do you think?
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, creativity is a type of problem solving
-creativity requires moving from an initial state to a goal state
-it requires solutions that are both novel and useful
some theorists think creativity occurs with normal thinking and others
believe that ordinary people seldom produce creative products. Instead,
certain exceptional people are extraordinarily creative in their specific area
of expertise, such as music, literature, or science
creativity was first measured with divergent production; the number of
different responses made to a test item
-researchers agree that creativity requires divergent thinking
-theres more to it than just this though
1. Creativity includes convergent thinking, as well as divergent thinking.
-As previously discussed, divergent production is measured by the number
of different responses that the test-taker makes.
-In contrast, convergent production asks the test-taker to supply a single,
best response, and the researchers measure the quality of that response.
-Many situations require one especially creative solution, rather than
several less-useful solutions.
2. Creativity is associated with many regions within both the left and right
hemispheres
3. Creativity can occur when we use focused attention (conscious attention)
as well as defocused attention (altered states of consciousness)
-People can be creative when they are consciously focusing on a task. If
ideas occur to people when they are daydreaming, these ideas are not
especially creative
Why are expertise important to long term memory?
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, Expertise has an important effect on long-term memory, although
expertise is context-specific. Compared to novices, experts have cognitive
advantages such as well-organized knowledge structures and vivid visual
images.
massed learning
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When learning new material, the situation in which the learner practices the
material all at the same time, by "cramming"; this learning strategy is less
effective than spaced learning.
Aphasia
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Difficulty communicating, caused by damage to the speech areas of the
brain. This damage is typically caused by a stroke or a tumor.
semantic memory
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A person's organized knowledge about the world, including knowledge
about words and other factual information.
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may have trouble noticing the food on the right side of her plate. She may
eat only the food on the left side of her plate, and she might even complain
that she didn't receive enough food
,bottleneck theories
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proposed a similar narrow passageway in human information processing. In
other words, this bottleneck limits the quantity of information to which we
can pay attention.
Define "creativity." How is creativity related to problem solving? Do Demonstration
10.8. Describe Guilford's divergent production approach. Describe the three
observations listed by Matlin and Farmer on the nature of creativity.
Comment: Wisdom is another concept that is often discussed in the context of
creativity. Both wisdom and creativity are valuable traits that often enhance an
individual's problem-solving ability. Like creativity, defining wisdom has been a
conceptual challenge. An interesting belief about these concepts is that creativity is
more likely to be associated with youth, whereas wisdom is more likely to be
associated with age. What do you think?
Give this one a try later!
, creativity is a type of problem solving
-creativity requires moving from an initial state to a goal state
-it requires solutions that are both novel and useful
some theorists think creativity occurs with normal thinking and others
believe that ordinary people seldom produce creative products. Instead,
certain exceptional people are extraordinarily creative in their specific area
of expertise, such as music, literature, or science
creativity was first measured with divergent production; the number of
different responses made to a test item
-researchers agree that creativity requires divergent thinking
-theres more to it than just this though
1. Creativity includes convergent thinking, as well as divergent thinking.
-As previously discussed, divergent production is measured by the number
of different responses that the test-taker makes.
-In contrast, convergent production asks the test-taker to supply a single,
best response, and the researchers measure the quality of that response.
-Many situations require one especially creative solution, rather than
several less-useful solutions.
2. Creativity is associated with many regions within both the left and right
hemispheres
3. Creativity can occur when we use focused attention (conscious attention)
as well as defocused attention (altered states of consciousness)
-People can be creative when they are consciously focusing on a task. If
ideas occur to people when they are daydreaming, these ideas are not
especially creative
Why are expertise important to long term memory?
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, Expertise has an important effect on long-term memory, although
expertise is context-specific. Compared to novices, experts have cognitive
advantages such as well-organized knowledge structures and vivid visual
images.
massed learning
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When learning new material, the situation in which the learner practices the
material all at the same time, by "cramming"; this learning strategy is less
effective than spaced learning.
Aphasia
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Difficulty communicating, caused by damage to the speech areas of the
brain. This damage is typically caused by a stroke or a tumor.
semantic memory
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A person's organized knowledge about the world, including knowledge
about words and other factual information.
