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[4] [5] Intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate. [6] The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as "consider" or from the late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate". [2] [7] Use of intuition is sometimes referred to as responding to a "gut feeling" or "trusting your gut". [8]
Intuitive decision-making can be described as the process by which information acquired through associated learning and stored in long-term memory is accessed unconsciously to form the basis of a judgment or decision. [3] This information can be transferred through effects induced by exposure to available options, or through unconscious cognition.
Jung wrote: "Intuition, in the introverted attitude, is directed upon the inner object, a term we might justly apply to the elements of the unconscious. The relation of inner objects to consciousness is entirely analogous to that of outer objects, although theirs is a psychological and not a physical reality.
Malcolm Gladwell described intuition, not as an emotional reaction, but a very quick thinking. [5] He said that if an individual realized that a truck is about to hit him, there would be no time to think through all of his options and, to survive, he must rely on this kind of decision-making apparatus, which is capable of making very quick judgments based on little information. [6]
The psychologist Daniel Kahneman, adopting terms originally proposed by the psychologists Keith Stanovich and Richard West, has theorized that a person's decision-making is the result of an interplay between two kinds of cognitive processes: an automatic intuitive system (called "System 1") and an effortful rational system (called "System 2").
Sensation is the function that transmits physiological stimulus to conscious perception. Intuition is the function that transmits invisible, mental associations. Just as consciousness is directed by an attitude, it is also directed by a function, giving rise to thinking types, feeling types, sensation types, and intuitive types.
Artificial intuition is theoretically (or otherwise) a sophisticated function of an artifice that is able to interpret data with depth and locate hidden factors functioning in Gestalt psychology, [10] [11] and that intuition in the artificial mind would, in the context described here, be a bottom-up process upon a macroscopic scale identifying ...
Ψ , the first letter of the Greek word psyche from which the term psychology is derived, is commonly associated with the field of psychology. In 1890, William James defined psychology as "the science of mental life, both of its phenomena and their conditions." [14] This definition enjoyed widespread currency for decades.