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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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 Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:26 am Post subject: Try this Psychology test........... |
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Say the word "20" (Twenty), twenty times.... (twenty,twenty,twenty...so on)
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QUICK!!! NAME A VEGETABLE! don't think to hard. what is the first thing that comes you your mind?
did you say carrots? |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:35 am Post subject: |
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I remember these. Another one:
Spell 'silk' 10 times.
What do cows drink?
Milk? I thought cows drink water! |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:52 am Post subject: |
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I will try that on my students  |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| chronicpride wrote: |
I remember these. Another one:
Spell 'silk' 10 times.
What do cows drink?
Read this......
piaget's conservation experiment
A delightful story appears on page 106 (10.8 Education and Development) of Marvin Minsky's book "The Society of Mind" (Picador Edn 1988). The story relates to the psychologist Piaget's experiments on children of their understanding of conservation of quantity under transformation.
All this reminds me of a visit to my home from my friend Gilbert Voyat, who was then a student of Papert and Piaget and later became a distinguished child psychologist. On meeting our five-year-old twins, his eyes sparkled, and he quickly improvised some experiments in the kitchen. Gilbert engaged Julie first, planning to ask her about whether a potato would balance best on one, two, three or four toothpicks. First, in order to assess her general development, he began by performing the water jar experiment. The conversation went like this:
Gilbert: "Is there more water in this jar or in that jar?"
Julie: "It looks like there's more in that one. But you should ask my brother, Henry. He has conservation already."
Gilbert paled and fled.
Moral: Don't try to perform psychological experiments on the children of psychologists!
Milk? I thought cows drink water! |
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margaret
Joined: 14 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, I don't get it. Is this a test to see if you're stupid enough do follow the directions or what? Like saying "owatagusiam?
I said onions, not carrots. What do carrots have to do with twenty? I can see what cows and silk have to do with milk. 
Margaret |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| margaret wrote: |
Sorry, I don't get it. Is this a test to see if you're stupid enough do follow the directions or what? Like saying "owatagusiam?
I said onions, not carrots. What do carrots have to do with twenty? I can see what cows and silk have to do with milk.
Margaret |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!"
Jack Kerouac [ 1922-1969 ]
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Sure, I said carrot. I'd guess the association is 20-karat. I doubt it would work on Koreans. |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| Sure, I said carrot. I'd guess the association is 20-karat. I doubt it would work on Koreans. |
I think you have something there, I tried it out on a Korean friend, he said Potato! |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: |
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| I said swede. |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: |
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this is the second thread started by mercury that made me check to see if I really was in the General Forum or not. What's going on?  |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Here are a few of my favorites:
PERSECUTOR: Repeat everything I say--red.
VICTIM: Red.
PERSECUTOR: Green.
VICTIM: Green.
PERSECUTOR: Yellow.
VICTIM: Yellow.
PERSECUTOR: What color is the sky?
VICTIM: Blue.
PERSECUTOR: Ha ha, you were supposed to say "What color is the sky?"
PERSECUTOR: Answer every question in one word--what's your name?
VICTIM: Johnny.
PERSECUTOR: (pointing to his own nose) What's this?
VICTIM: Nose.
PERSECUTOR: (cupping his hands) What's in my hands?
VICTIM: Nothing.
PERSECUTOR: That's right, "Johnny knows nothing."
PERSECUTOR: Do you want to take an intelligence test?
VICTIM: Sure.
PERSECUTOR: How much is one plus one?
VICTIM: Two.
PERSECUTOR: How much is two plus two?
VICTIM: Four.
PERSECUTOR: How much is three plus three?
VICTIM: Six.
PERSECUTOR: What was the first question I asked you?
VICTIM: "How much is one plus one?"
PERSECUTOR: Ha ha, the first question I asked you was "Do you want to take an intelligence test?"
PERSECUTOR: Let's take a spelling test: dog.
VICTIM: D-O-G.
PERSECUTOR: Cat.
VICTIM: C-A-T.
PERSECUTOR: Bird.
VICTIM: B-I-R-D.
PERSECUTOR: Wrong.
VICTIM: (getting all excited) What? Bird sure is B-I-R-D. How would you spell it?
PERSECUTOR: Ha ha, you were supposed to say W-R-O-N-G.
PERSECUTOR: Say "boots" without "shoes."
VICTIM: Boots without shoes.
PERSECUTOR: Ha ha, you were supposed to say "boots."
PERSECUTOR: Let me tell you a story: Once upon a time, there were seven little morons--Do, Re, Fa, So, La, and Ti.
VICTIM: What about Mi?
PERSECUTOR: Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about you. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| I read once that when simply asked to name a vegetable most people say carrot. |
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