LOGICAL AND ASSOCIATED MIND MAP

A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas.

Just as in every great idea, its power lies in its simplicity.

In a mind map, as opposed to traditional note taking or a linear text, information is structured in a way that resembles much more closely how your brain actually works. Since it is an activity that is both analytical and artistic, it engages your brain in a much, much richer way, helping in all its cognitive functions. And, best of all, it is fun!

So, how does a mind map look like? Better than explaining is showing you an example.

This is a mind map about – conveniently enough – mind mapping itself. It presents, in a visual way, the core elements and techniques on how to draw mind maps. Yes, I know this may look a little too messy initially, but bear with me: once you break the ingrained habit of linear note taking, you won’t look back.

Benefits and Uses

I think I already gave away the benefits of mind mapping and why mind maps work. Basically, mind mapping avoids dull, linear thinking, jogging your creativity and making note taking fun again.

But what can we use mind maps for?

• Note taking
• Brainstorming (individually or in groups)
• Problem solving
• Studying and memorization
• Planning
• Researching and consolidating information from multiple sources
• Presenting information
• Gaining insight on complex subjects
• Jogging your creativity

It is hard to make justice to the number of uses mind maps can have – the truth is that they can help clarify your thinking in pretty much anything, in many different contexts: personal, family, educational or business. Planning you day or planning your life, summarizing a book, launching a project, planning and creating presentations, writing blog posts -well, you get the idea – anything, really.

How to Draw a Mind Map

Drawing a mind map is as simple as 1-2-3:

• Start in the middle of a blank page, writing or drawing the idea you intend to develop. I would suggest that you use the page in landscape orientation.
• Develop the related subtopics around this central topic, connecting each of them to the center with a line.
• Repeat the same process for the subtopics, generating lower-level subtopics as you see fit, connecting each of those to the corresponding subtopic.

Some more recommendations:

• Use colors, drawings and symbols copiously. Be as visual as you can, and your brain will thank you. I’ve met many people who don’t even try, with the excuse they’re "not artists". Don’t let that keep you from trying it out!.
• Keep the topics labels as short as possible, keeping them to a single word – or, better yet, to only a picture. Especially in your first mind maps, the temptation to write a complete phrase is enormous, but always look for opportunities to shorten it to a single word or figure – your mind map will be much more effective that way.
• Vary text size, color and alignment. Vary the thickness and length of the lines. Provide as many visual cues as you can to emphasize important points. Every little bit helps engaging your brain.

http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/

Types of Mind Maps

Problem-Solving Maps

• A mind map is a useful tool to use during team brainstorming sessions when the goal is to generate ideas rapidly, without immediate logical review. Displaying the mind map continuously during the session allows team members to see the ideas generated, which stimulates more ideas. This process creates positive momentum for problem solving.

  A problem-solving brainstorming session starts with the guide or leader recording the problem in a phrase or small picture at the center of what will become the mind map. As team members participate with comments, the recorder draws colored spokes radiating from the core issue. Each spoke represents a different aspect of the issue and is labeled with a phrase or picture. As the session continues, the comments of team members result in the addition of smaller lines flowing from the spokes and of arrows illustrating connections between items on different spokes.

  Problem-solving mind maps are often used during just the single brainstorming session. Team members shout out their ideas, structure the map, set priorities and create action items. After the mind map facilitates this process, it is no longer needed. The life spans of problem-solving mind maps are often only few hours.

Project Maps

• Planning an event, planning a product launch, developing the strategy to close a large sale, and other activities can produce project mind maps. Updated periodically to reflect changes in project status, they live only until project completion. The life spans of project mind maps are normally just a few days or weeks.

Knowledge Maps

• Knowledge mind maps contain information recorded once and kept for later use, sometimes replacing existing documents. Some are fine tuned and updated over time, while others are never updated. Mind maps describing company processes, sometimes including checklists, are examples of knowledge mind maps. Used multiple times over a long period, knowledge mind maps are important in preserving corporate history, the never-recorded knowledge existing only inside the heads of employees. Knowledge mind maps can be particularly helpful for new employees in discovering past processes for conducting recurring activities. The life spans of knowledge mind maps can be years.

  http://www.ehow.com/list_6148477_types-mind-maps.html

Examples of Mind Map

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OUR POINT OF VIEW

for me, mind mapping is one of the easiest way to remember and understand the data.. it is also good to gain ideas to create something new.. something that we never thought that it can be related to.. besides, it does help much in our imagination and increase the creativity.. and most importantly is to stay out of stereotype..

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Athirah Azhar

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As for my opinion, mind mapping is another effective way for students to study in a fun way! Sometimes we need to have some of our artistic ability out rather than our logic thinking always. i had always been interested in different ways of organizing thoughts and brainstorming, and mind mapping is just what i need. It is also a very good way for us to understand and remember all the information, rather than carrying a big book with only writings, students can get bored looking at the same writings and also they might forget everything that they have studied

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Christine

WHAT IS STEREOTYPE??

STEREOTYPE:  a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of 
                          person or thing


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DESCRIPTION

Stereotypes are generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group. These classifications can be positive or negative, such as when various nationalities are stereotyped as friendly or unfriendly.

It is easier to create stereotypes when there is a clearly visible and consistent attribute that can easily be recognized. This is why people of color, police and women are so easily stereotyped.

People from stereotyped groups can find this very disturbing as they experience an apprehension (stereotype threat) of being treated unfairly.

We change our stereotypes infrequently. Even in the face of disconfirming evidence, we often cling to our obviously-wrong beliefs. When we do change the stereotypes, we do so in one of three ways:

• Bookkeeping model: As we learn new contradictory information, we incrementally adjust the stereotype to adapt to the new information. We usually need quite a lot of repeated information for each incremental change. Individual evidence is taken as the exception that proves the rule.
• Conversion model: We throw away the old stereotype and start again. This is often used when there is significant disconfirming evidence.
• Subtyping model: We create a new stereotype that is a sub-classification of the existing stereotype, particularly when we can draw a boundary around the sub-class. Thus if we have a stereotype for Americans, a visit to New York may result in us having a ‘New Yorkers are different’ sub-type.

We often store stereotypes in two parts. First there is the generalized descriptions and attributes. To this we may add exemplars to prove the case, such as 'the policeman next door'. We may also store them hierarchically, such as 'black people', 'Africans', 'Ugandans', 'Ugandan military', etc., with each lower order inheriting the characteristics of the higher order, with additional characteristics added.

Stereotyping can go around in circles. Men stereotype women and women stereotype men. In certain societies this is intensified as the stereotyping of women pushes them together more and they create men as more of an out-group. The same thing happens with different racial groups, such as 'white/black' (an artificial system of opposites, which in origin seems to be more like 'European/non-European').

Stereotyping can be subconscious, where it subtly biases our decisions and actions, even in people who consciously do not want to be biased.

Stereotyping often happens not so much because of aggressive or unkind thoughts. It is more often a simplification to speed conversation on what is not considered to be an important topic.

EXAMPLE

Stereotyping goes way beyond race and gender. Consider conversations you have had about people from the next town, another department in your company, supporters of other football teams, and so on.  

SO WHAT?

Using it

Find how others stereotype you (if possible, getting them to stereotype you positively). They will have a blind spot to non-stereotyped behaviors, so you can do these and they will often ignore it. Thus if you are stereotyped as a ‘kind old man’, you can do moderately unkind things which may be ignored.

Defending

To change a person’s view of your stereotype, be consistently different from it. Beware of your own stereotyping blinding you to the true nature of other individuals.

Stereotyping can be reduced by bringing people together. When they discover the other people are not as the stereotype, the immediate evidence creates dissonance that leads to improved thoughts about the other group.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/stereotypes.htm

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OUR POINT OF VIEW

To me, stereo type is the most powerful weapon in today's world. People can easily be trick by it. Because a person who master stereo type can predict wat will the targeted people would think off. This is an important weapon when it comes to advertising. Media is one of the medium that gave them the advantages because people now day's like entertainment rather then think wisely.

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Ahmad Shafiq

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From what I've learn, stereotype is a common thing that come out from people's mind when talking or seeing something. Stereotype can destroy our creativity. To produce a creative things and design, we need to run away from stereotype. Just thing in other way or in other scope.


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Farah Wahida

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for me, stereotype is useful for those who don't like to change or event scared to be different.. it is easier for them to be just the same like others.. but for some of us who really wants to stands up for something we do need to get rid of this stereotype.. think what others don't.. dare to be different..
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Athirah Azhar

LITTLE MORE INFORMATION

QUANTUM TELEPORTATION

Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original and teleported versions of the same person meet; but the more common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.
In 1993 an international group of six scientists, including IBM Fellow Charles H. Bennett, confirmed the intuitions of the majority of science fiction writers by showing that perfect teleportation is indeed possible in principle, but only if the original is destroyed. In subsequent years, other scientists have demonstrated teleportation experimentally in a variety of systems, including single photons, coherent light fields, nuclear spins, and trapped ions.  Teleportation promises to be quite useful as an information processing primitive, facilitating long range quantum communication (perhaps unltimately leading to a "quantum internet"), and making it much easier to build a working quantum computer.   But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so.  
In the past, the idea of teleportation was not taken very seriously by scientists, because it was thought to violate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, which forbids any measuring or scanning process from extracting all the information in an atom or other object. According to the uncertainty principle, the more accurately an object is scanned, the more it is disturbed by the scanning process, until one reaches a point where the object's original state has been completely disrupted, still without having extracted enough information to make a perfect replica. This sounds like a solid argument against teleportation: if one cannot extract enough information from an object to make a perfect copy, it would seem that a perfect copy cannot be made. But the six scientists found a way to make an end run around this logic, using a celebrated and paradoxical feature of quantum mechanics known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect. In brief, they found a way to scan out part of the information from an object A, which one wishes to teleport, while causing the remaining, unscanned, part of the information to pass, via the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect, into another object C which has never been in contact with A. Later, by applying to C a treatment depending on the scanned-out information, it is possible to maneuver C into exactly the same state as A was in before it was scanned. A itself is no longer in that state, having been thoroughly disrupted by the scanning, so what has been achieved is teleportation, not replication.
As the figure to the left suggests, the unscanned part of the information is conveyed from A to C by an intermediary objectB, which interacts first with C and then with A. What? Can it really be correct to say "first with C and then with A"? Surely, in order to convey something from A to C, the delivery vehicle must visit A before C, not the other way around. But there is a subtle, unscannable kind of information that, unlike any material cargo, and even unlike ordinary information, can indeed be delivered in such a backward fashion. This subtle kind of information, also called "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation" or "entanglement", has been at least partly understood since the 1930s when it was discussed in a famous paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen. In the 1960s John Bell showed that a pair of entangled particles, which were once in contact but later move too far apart to interact directly, can exhibit individually random behavior that is too strongly correlated to be explained by classical statistics. Experiments on photons and other particles have repeatedly confirmed these correlations, thereby providing strong evidence for the validity of quantum mechanics, which neatly explains them. Another well-known fact about EPR correlations is that they cannot by themselves deliver a meaningful and controllable message. It was thought that their only usefulness was in proving the validity of quantum mechanics. But now it is known that, through the phenomenon of quantum teleportation, they can deliver exactly that part of the information in an object which is too delicate to be scanned out and delivered by conventional methods.
This figure compares conventional facsimile transmission with quantum teleportation (see above). In conventional facsimile transmission the original is scanned, extracting partial information about it, but remains more or less intact after the scanning process. The scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where it is imprinted on some raw material (eg paper) to produce an approximate copy of the original. By contrast, in quantum teleportation, two objects B and C are first brought into contact and then separated. Object B is taken to the sending station, while objectC is taken to the receiving station. At the sending station object B is scanned together with the original object A which one wishes to teleport, yielding some information and totally disrupting the state of A and B. The scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where it is used to select one of several treatments to be applied to object C, thereby putting C into an exact replica of the former state of A.



http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/

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OUR POINT OF VIEW

my comment bout the novelty :~ When you think straight, I dont think this kinda machine (teleportation) is something that can be proven yet. Its just a theory from a small group of scientist. Think about it, if its proven. Why is it not shown and reveal to the world this very convenient machine. To me I dont believe it much, only a reading subject to me. (unless its proven)


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Ahmad Shafiq

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for me, teleportation is something that minor people believe in it and appreciate it.. this is because, we rely on science too much.. but there's also something that cannot be define by science.. currently, the teleportation is just novelty among the believers.. but we don't really know what's going to happen in the future.. maybe, it will be one of the famous transportation in the future.. the whole world will be using it everywhere.

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Athirah Azhar

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In the article, it doesn't include the person who create the teleportation. For me, this teleportation is not a success yet since that it doesn't expose yet to the public. This type of invention can be categorized under novelty because it is not proven yet.

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Farah Wahida

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NOVELTY,CREATIVITY,INNOVATION AND INVENTION

NOVELTY:   the quality of being new, original, or unusual
CREATIVITY:  the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness
INNOVATION:   a new method, idea, product, etc.
INVENTION:   the action of inventing something, typically a process or device


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AVATAR

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Ahmad Shafiq

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Athirah Azhar

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Farah Wahida 

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Christine  

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Renuka

KNOWING THE MEMBERS

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a short Q & A about our members

by Shafiq :: ATHIRAH

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by Ahirah :: SHAFIQ

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by Farah:: CHRISTINE

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by Christine:: FARAH

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LEFT AND RIGHT BRAIN

SPECIALITIES
-right hemisphere-    

Copying of designs

Discrimination of shapes e.g. picking out a camouflaged object       

Understanding geometric properties

Reading faces

Music

 Global holistic processing

Understanding of metaphors

Expressing emotions

Reading emotions

 Negative emotions (fearful mournful feelings)

Higher levels of norepinephrine 

-left hemisphere-

Language skills

Skilled movement

Analytical time sequence processing

Positive emotions

Higher levels of dopamine

SHARED

Sensations on both side of face

Sound perceived by both ears

Pain

Hunger

Position

http://www.singsurf.org/brain/rightbrain.php

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OUR POINT OF VIEW

I think, people that is left brain thinker are boring. Why? because they dont know how to make things more interesting. they just think straight and like the way it be. Meanwhile, people who is the right thinker brain. They are complicated and a chaotic person. They are too imaginary and unpredictable. So, to me. The best is you are a balance thinker. Because you can think creative at the same time, knows the limitation of logic and what human can do.

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Ahmad Shafiq

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The right brain thinker always play with emotions. Sometimes, it will make their life unstable and it also can lead to suicide. Besides that, right brain thinker like something that more to leisure and peaceful. While left brain thinker more to something that straight to the point, skills, rules and they always punctual. But, overall, we need both of it to make our life smooth and happy. Try to balance the usage of right brain and left brain.

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Farah Wahida

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