10 Mindblowing secrets that radically alter your understanding of thinking - ZipMinis: Science of Blogging and Writing

10 Mindblowing secrets that radically alter your understanding of thinking - ZipMinis: Science of Blogging and Writing



Mines how the cognitive revolution beginning in the 1960's changed the view of how the human mind thinks, learns, and uses language.



Notes 10 key secrets of the human mind that cognitive science discovered:

The way experts think differs from novices. Experts in subject areas think about problems differently than amateurs. Studies found that the surface of the problem distracted amateurs, making them unable to think deeply and abstractly about the problem. They discovered that the way you think about the problem makes a big difference in solving it.

The length of short-term memory is very brief. Scholars found that your short term memory is much shorter than previously thought: only 15 - 30 seconds.

Most people find formal logical thinking difficult. If you are a logical thinker,  you are the exception. Most people find it hard to follow logical steps to find answers and solve problems. ...