RE: Seeing red
February 15, 2016 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2016 at 5:31 pm by bennyboy.)
About 7 +/- 2, I don't think it's about "contexts." I'm pretty sure it's how many separate entities or bits of information your mind can track at one time. And then, there's chunking, which I guess you mean by context, though I don't think you mentioned learning as the binding force of a given context. Maybe I'm not understanding you, and for sure I forget a lot from my psych courses 20 years ago.
As for your biggest context being the present, that I'm not sure about. I think the idea of self is the biggest context, and then the world view. That's why things like self-generation of ideas lead to better recall, perhaps: it connects say a new word you're learning in a language to the narrative of the self.
Just being argumentative here. You said SO many things that were right on and interesting, but those are the thigns I arbitrarily picked to engage on.
As for your biggest context being the present, that I'm not sure about. I think the idea of self is the biggest context, and then the world view. That's why things like self-generation of ideas lead to better recall, perhaps: it connects say a new word you're learning in a language to the narrative of the self.
Just being argumentative here. You said SO many things that were right on and interesting, but those are the thigns I arbitrarily picked to engage on.
