Samstag, 19. Februar 2022

Thinking Too Much?

Guy Claxton:

"However, when they were attempting the insight problems, subjects paused more frequently, and the pauses were longer: there were many more occasions on which there was, seemingly, nothing going on in the problem-solvers' mind. And when people doing the insight problems did verbalis, they were four times more likely to make the kinds of comments that referred not to the logic of the problem but to their own mental state. They would say things like: 'There is nothing that's going through my that's really in any kind of ... that's in a verbal fashion'; or 'I know I'm supposed to keep talking but I don't know what I am thinking. And this experience of 'nothing going on' was actually correlated with success on the insight problems. Those subjects who paused more solved more problems. Keeping up a running mental commentary really does interfere with the slower, less conscious processes going on at the back of the mind ... We must presume that people for whom such chatter is habitual are thereby hampered when it comes to dealing with problems of great subtlety or indeterminacy."

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