Malcolm Gladwell‚ a best-selling author‚ describes the social phenomenon known as thin-slicing in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Thin-slicing refers to the way that people take in little information quickly and make judgements with or without knowing they are doing so. Gladwell asserts that thin-slicing is imperative in save time and make valuable predictions. Gladwell’s inference is well supported with psychologists’ research and data collected on the subconscious. Gladwell’s
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teachers‚ and other adults in society teach children to "never judge a book by its cover‚" in terms of many aspects of life‚ which range from judging particular situations to making judgements about other people. Malcolm Gladwell’s main idea in his book‚ Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚ contradicts the saying. Instead‚ Gladwell theorizes that in many situations‚ a person’s initial 3-second "snap" judgement with minimal information is more accurate than a decision made through long deliberation
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“Don’t blink” by Kenny Chesney is about living life to the fullest and making every moment count. Life goes by fast and if you just blink time will go by quicker than you think. The song first starts out with the lyrics “I turned on the evening news‚ saw a old man being interviewed‚ turning a hundred and two today‚ asked him what’s the secret to life”. With these lyrics‚ Kenny Chesney is saying that instead of naming events about life he would change‚ the man talks about not blinking. By the phrase
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AP Psychology 3rd period August 26‚ 2012 Blink Vocabulary Words 1. Spontaneous- something done without preemptive thought‚ but that isn’t random 2. Diagnose- to determine the cause of something in a medical way. Generally for a disease or disorder. 3. Aesthetic- the qualities that make something appealing. 4. Contempt- a lack of respect for someone in a condescending way 5. Implicit- something implied‚ but not expressly stated. 6. Plausible- a reasonable idea or possibility. 7. Bias-
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In fact‚ Malcolm Gladwell the author of Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking‚ exploits this idea by stating how humanity’s first impression on others occurs within two seconds of meeting the individual. He explains that people “think without thinking” and indulge in “thin slicing”; a term in which he defines it as our ability to make a decision in the blink of an eye. In Gladwell’s book‚ he denotes that thin slicing is
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Cognitive Learning Theories & Behavioral Learning Theories in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Cognitive learning theory is the study of human cognitive processes of learning to explore the laws of learning theories. Main points include that people are the subject taking initiative to learn; the process people acquire information is that the information exchange process of perception‚ attention‚ memory‚ understanding and problem solving. Behavioral learning theory is the stimulus-response
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Summary of Chapter 5 of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking In chapter five of Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚ he takes a new twist on the idea of thin-slicing‚ which he describes as‚ “the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience” (23). Throughout the four previous chapters‚ he explained how thin-slicing works and how it can be useful in everyday life. However‚ in this chapter‚ offers
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Chyanne Summerlin February 19‚ 2014 Reflection: Will Gompertz; What are you looking at? I enjoyed reading Gompertz book on modern arts. It was funny‚ witty and a helpful source to me‚ someone who doesn’t know too much of nothing about the arts. I learned a lot of different facts and core knowledge and even how some pieces came to be. Will Gompertz made me feel as if I was in the book as he was typing the words in the book. As he told about the different art pieces I felt as I was there as
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caused by emotional stimuli on the perception of non-emotional stimuli called emotion-induced blindness. It seems very similar to attentional blink‚ as both work only in RSVP task and both show perceptual impairment for the second stimuli. Regardless of surface level similarities‚ mechanism following attentional blink is different from emotion-induced blindness. Attentional blink is caused by capacity limitation & impaired visual working memory(Chun & Potter‚ 1995) . Whereas emotion-induced blindness
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Mindful Meditation and the Brain Some view meditation as new age‚ hippie nonsense because it is not a social norm to sit in silence and dig beneath the surface of the mind. Others liken it to tuning an instrument before playing it. I subscribe to the latter; nonetheless‚ meditation is an ancient practice that can be traced back 2‚500 years. However‚ neuroscientists are just now beginning to measure the effects that it has on the brain. While there are many types of meditation‚ they all have the
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