exemplar theory

Descendant of the “good” immigrants (by Rhonda Chung)

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If I go back to where I come from, it means going back to Toronto.

If I go back to where my parents were born, that country no longer exists.

My parents were born not in Dutch Guiana (Suriname), or French Guiana (Guyane française), or Spanish Guayana (Venezuela), or Portuguese Guiana (Brazil), but in British Guiana (Guyana), a small coastal country located in the north-eastern region of South America.

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I am not your prototype (by Rhonda Chung)

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We take what we know (declarative knowledge) and we make something out of it (procedural knowledge), and if we keep doing that thing enough times, it becomes part of who we are (automaticity).

Who says cognitive science isn’t poetic?

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Skill-execution-in-the-stages-with-declarative-procedural-and-mixed-representation-of_fig2_235170174
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