Kahneman's dichotomous framework in Shantanu's blog makes me think about how people start to categorize things, physically or abstractly, and how those categories in mind would influence their ways of perceiving the world. If a person only knows two kinds of color: white and black, then how would he or she think about the blue? Whenever a person encounters this problem, it seems to be assimilation or accommodation processes. But the underlying mechanisms remain to be mysterious. If that person accepts the new color as blue just because other people tell him that is the truth, is this a kind of fast thinking? In this way, probably many ideas or categories in our existing mind would be revised if we apply slow thinking in the assimilation or accommodation processes.
In the current educational context, much knowledge is learned through secondhand experiences in which ideas and concepts are assimilated or accommodated into thinking system. For slow thinkers, they might probably hold more sophisticated thinking system and it would take more time to fit a new situation into a suitable category or they may try to recreate categories in order to justify the new problems. But for fast thinkers, what are reasons that they wouldn't be willing to slow down and think other possibilities? Comparing first-hand experiences with secondhand experiences, I'm thinking about how they would shape people's thinking system differently. For self-efficacy which originates from first-hand successful experiences, does this account for slow thinking process if there is any link between them?
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