PSYC 471 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-7: Myelin, Knowledge Is Power Program, Unconscious Mind
3 Dec 2015
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The holy shit effect (hse) is the feeling of seeing talent bloom in people who we thought were just like us. Experiment involving both master player and more ordinary ones. While placed chess pieces into positions from a real game, master players recalled the pieces and arrangements 4 to 5 times better than the ordinary player did. While placed chess pieces randomly, master player didn"t do better. Thus, it demonstrates that they didn"t have photographic memories. Explanation: it was a difference of organisation, the difference between someone who understood a language and someone who didn"t. Skill consists of identifying important elements and grouping them into a meaningful framework. Physical acts are also built of chunks. The three rules of deep practice: chunk it up: Instinct to slow down and break skills into their components is universal. Chunking takes place in 3 dimensions: looks the task as a whole, divide it into its smallest possible chunks:
