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Sean Dagony-Clark

Demonstration on the Nature of Long-Term Memory - APA - 0 views

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    "This then leads into a discussion of ... the reconstructive and associative nature of long-term memory. ... when we remember information, it is a combination of what we have experienced and what we know about the world." Memory as constructed experience. Beautiful.
Sean Dagony-Clark

The Creativity Crisis - The Daily Beast - 1 views

  • To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).
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      See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_and_divergent_production for Guilford's divergent/convergent thinking
  • What’s shocking is how incredibly well Torrance’s creativity index predicted those kids’ creative accomplishments as adults.
  • The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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  • facts and familiar solutions
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      remembering
  • scan remote memories that could be vaguely relevant
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      remembering/understanding
  • searches for unseen patterns, alternative meanings, and high-level abstractions.
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      analyzing
  • In a flash, the brain pulls together these disparate shreds of thought and binds them into a new single idea that enters consciousness
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      creating
  • Now the brain must evaluate the idea it just generated
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      evaluating
  • Highly creative people are very good at marshaling their brains into bilateral mode
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      ...and good at navigating the taxonomies!
  • When faculty of a major Chinese university asked Plucker to identify trends in American education, he described our focus on standardized curriculum, rote memorization, and nationalized testing. “After my answer was translated, they just started laughing out loud,” Plucker says. “They said, ‘You’re racing toward our old model. But we’re racing toward your model, as fast as we can.’ ”
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