Thinking, Fast and Slow*Major New York Times Bestseller |
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... tasks. In our version of the gorilla experiment, we instructed the participants to assign priority to the digit task. We know that they followed that instruction, because the timing ofthe visual target had no effect on the main task. If ...
... task that required discriminating between the pitch of two tones yielded significantly larger dilations. Recent research has shown that inhibiting the tendency to read distracting words (as in figure 2 ofthe preceding chapter) also ...
... task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure. The need for rapid switching is one ofthe reasons that Add-3 and mental multiplication are so difficult. To perform the Add-3 task, you must hold several digits in your ...
... tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper rather than to an ... task. It requires mental effort!” “The law of least effort is operating here. He will think as little as possible ...
... tasks and speeded-up mental work are not intrinsically pleasurable, and that people avoid them when possible. This is how the law of least effort comes to be a law. Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of ...