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During a lab meeting, one of our PhD researchers recalls how her father would forbid her from using paper to help solve maths ho
During a lab meeting, one of our PhD researchers recalls how her father would forbid her from using paper to help solve maths ho
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2019-08-08
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During a lab meeting, one of our PhD researchers recalls how her father would forbid her from using paper to help solve maths homework problems by writing them down. 【F1】
Another admits that she sometimes still uses her hands to make small calculations, although she does so while hiding them behind her back.
When we realize that all of us use our fingers in order to answer demands for the "third, fifth, and seventh digits" of our secret online banking password, we laugh in relief. We are not so foolish after all, or at least we are not alone.
Our ability to think and reason has been trained and tested in real world situations that restrict our ability to use our hands. At school, children quickly learn to count "in their heads", without using their fingers as props. At university, we ask our students to take "closed-book" exams, relying only on that information committed to memory. Job applicants take intelligence tests during which their interaction with the world is limited to a tick-box (or computer key-press) to mark their selected answers. 【F2】
The implicit assumption that supports these practices is that truly intelligent behavior originates from the inner parts of the brain, and the brain alone.
Of course educators are well aware that props are a great help in teaching young children to reason with numbers and solve problems. Likewise, neuropsychologists use props to assess memory loss in the elderly. 【F3】
In other words, it’s acceptable to engage with the material world to support your thinking if your mental abilities are still developing or if you are losing your cognitive powers.
For the rest of us, however, it’s seen as a sign of cognitive weakness.
It is this view we aim to challenge, rejecting the metaphor of mind as computer according to which thoughts ultimately emerge from the brain’s processing of information from the outside world. 【F4】
The subtle consequence of this metaphor is that it implies that simulating a situation in your head while you think is equivalent to living through that situation while you think.
In both cases, your answer will depend only on how (well) your brain processes the information.
Our research strongly challenges this assumption. We show instead that people’s thoughts, choices and insights can be transformed by physical interaction with things. 【F5】
So next time your child counts using her fingers, or you see your employees spread out information over their desk and walls, be reassured: they are not limited in their capacity to think well.
In fact, they are enhancing their ability to think.
【F2】
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答案
支持这些做法的隐含假定是真正具有智慧的行为产生于大脑内部,并仅仅依赖于大脑。
解析
①本句为复合句,包含一个定语从句和一个表语从句。②定语从句that supports these practices修饰中心词assumption,补充说明这是怎样的assumption。③表语从句中的originate from意为“起源于,产生于”。from后接两个宾语,由并列连词and连接。
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考研英语一
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