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creativejourneysbct · 4 years

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ICT Week 3 - The Marshmallow Challenge

In this exercise, we were pitted against the minds of kindergarten students as well as executives in completing this relatively universal challenge. The premise was simple enough - in our groups of three, we had to construct the tallest structure possible that can hold up a marshmallow using only uncooked spaghetti, tape, and some thin string. And we had to do it all within 18 minutes. My group and I started by working on the structure of the tower's base, which actually turned out quite well and allowed us to construct a really tall tower from the dried spaghetti. However, when we put the marshmallow on top at the end, the tower bent and was unable to stand straight, falling over every time. Even though we tested at many stages of the construction, we failed to test with the marshmallow, which lead to our downfall.

Regardless, I still felt relatively positive throughout this challenge. It was fun fiddling with the spaghetti pieces to make the base, and I also enjoyed collaborating with new people and using our collective brains to come up with a plan.

The biggest takeaway from this experience was the valuable lesson about working from the top down. While we were fully aware of having to place the marshmallow on the structure at the end, we still focused all our energy on creating as tall a structure as possible and only placed the marshmallow on at the very end. So, to no one's surprise, it bent the tower and fell over. Ricardo made mention of the fact that children have a better time with this challenge than adults, and I can see why. Using my group as an example for adults, we got so fixated on the details of the structure that we forgot the most important element - the marshmallow. Children on the other hand are less prone to overthinking like us and consequently achieve better results by considering the marshmallow all along. The marshmallow for us was the unknown element and we should've paid more attention to it from the start. Prior planning is essential.

Another lesson learned through this game was the importance of teamwork. Especially in time-sensitive challenges like this, we can't afford for anyone to not contribute. Luckily, everyone in my team contributed to the final outcome and none of us tried to take too much charge and silence other members.

Analyzing this further, it's reminiscent of another social experiment called the Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. That experiment asks the subjects to count the number of times a ball is passed between a group of people. The end result is that the majority of subjects are so fixated on counting the number of passes, that they completely miss a giant gorilla walking right through the people passing the ball. Like the marshmallow challenge, it's another example of us getting too fixated on one detail to be able to deal with the bigger picture.

In conclusion, while our tower may not have been successful I believe we all learned a valuable lesson. and it's a lesson that can be applied to future projects, and even past ones. I've already been able to identify the "marshmallow" from our first studio project - the spinner for our board game. This, like the marshmallow, was a relatively unknown element that was essential to the final outcome and, like the marshmallow, we only realized at the end that what we had created didn't work with this element. But that's okay! We learned from it and that's what this early creative stage is about.

So, in the future, I'll be sure to identify the unknown element, or "marshmallow", at the outset of our task and ensure everything we do is done with that element in mind. This means testing at each step of the way WITH the element.

All in all, it was a fun, practical, and educational experience that provided universal lessons that I'm sure will prove invaluable for the rest of the BCT journey and beyond.

Reference: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html

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topsellinginspirationalbook-blog · 5 years

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12 Motivational Books That could Change Your Life

Sometimes in this busy life of ours we glance round us and realize that we're not completely happy. We wish to make a change weather financial, relational, physical or spiritual. Sadly most of the time we push down our desire and push on with a state of affairs that we are not actually pleased with, leaving us stuck in the standard rut. The ability of now is not everyone’s favorite motivational e-book, but it comprises an important fact that we should embrace so as to succeed no matter our goal is. All that we actually have is the moment that we find ourselves in. I do know what you’re pondering, you already knew that proper? I mean it’s so apparent a baby may see it, properly in reality our lives don’t are likely to mirror this easy reality. What number of instances have you regarded back and regretted your phrases, actions or missed alternatives? How many occasions do you look ahead and produce all of your future potential problems into the present? We offer three motivational books; one hard cover e-book, "Wings of Wisdom", and two tender lined books, "Wings for Goals", and "Wings for Work", by Catherine Pulsifer. For extra detailed information, together with the authors introduction and excerpts from the books, click on on the guide below. The books are available to Canada and US. They make a fantastic reward for you, or, for someone else! A perpetual e-book with quotes, tales and thoughts. You can read a quote for every day of the year. How to make use of Three Easy Steps to change You Life Forever! Sorry our book Wings for Work is now sold out. We are working on a new guide and once it's published will let you already know. But one of the components described within the book is to "do what you like to do". Many individuals have trouble making an attempt to resolve on what work they would love to do. There are many nice books which have been published that may assist you to resolve what you're greatest fitted to. Go to Books That can assist you Decide the kind of work you're greatest fitted to. Despite this e book being around for years I feel that it still related and can inspire readers to perform nice issues. I'd extremely suggest this ebook, it explains that you have to imagine that you will be successful in order to be successful. Also, don’t be afraid to fail. These two lessons alone are very valuable to a person’s success. He explains that failure is barely a part of the means of discovering out what works and what doesn’t. For my part, it was written towards serving to individuals to achieve success and construct shallowness and confidence. It goes by means of your mindset in relation to household, success, creativity, relationships, money and so on. and offers you small actions to do to usually enhance each facet of your life. It's a must to continually take a look at what you possibly can enhance and have the awareness to know what needs to be performed to do it. Overall, it’s an easy read and would be a great first guide to learn. 3. The Portable Jung by Carl Jung: The other main name in trendy psychology pioneered the idea of the collective subconscious, analyzed widespread symbology and lots extra extremely influential ideas. 4. The foundations of Sociological Method by Emile Durkheim: Whether a sociologist or physician attempting to higher understand patients, the field’s most impactful ebook is unimaginable, intelligent and really, very educational. 5. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker: Steven Pinker uses science to debunk the popular tabula rasa idea, touting the very core of humanity as a mix of nature and nurture. 6. The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo: Temporal psychology and notion form the core theme of the controversial Philip Zimbardo’s ruminations on correct administration — a ability every healthcare professional must master. 7. books to read in 2019 for Meaning by Victor Frankl: The compelling story of the author’s Holocaust survival opens up some provocative insight into the human thoughts — each its resilience and the ugly corners few want to acknowledge. 9. The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons: The authors challenge preconceived notions of perception and cognition in a way even these with out degrees or careers in psychology can still perceive. 10. Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam: Another incredibly insightful look at American society and the way staunch conformity breeds additional isolation from social justice, politics, occasions and extra. Did you enjoy this article? This entry was posted on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 at 12:Eleven am and is filed under Health News. You'll be able to comply with any responses to this entry via the RSS 2.Zero feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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gioithieusachaz · 2 years

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Sách Khỉ Đột Vô Hình Và Cú Lừa Của Trực Giác

Christopher Chabris và Daniel Simons gặp nhau tại Viện Đại học Harvard vào năm 1997 và bắt đầu trở thành cộng sự trong lĩnh vực nghiên cứu. Năm 2004, họ cùng thắng giải Ig Nobel về tâm lý học cho “những thành tựu ban đầu làm người ta phì cười, nhưng sau đó lại khiến họ suy nghĩ”. Khỉ Đột Vô Hình Và Cú Lừa Của Trực Giác được lấy cảm hứng từ đây. Đây là quyển sách về sáu ảo tưởng hàng ngày ảnh…

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existentialcattails · 6 years

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I was tagged by @puretchalla !!! (😭💓)

rules: tag 15 people you want to get to know better

relationship status: single

lipstick or chapstick: chapstick!! love my collection of eos balls

3 favorite foods: Hhhh i’m hard at picking favorites but my favorites right now are..... pierogi, lobster, aaaand chicken Alfredo pasta

song stuck in my head: HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T by FoB

last movie i watched: Black Panther cause I just heard it was on Netflix

top 3 tv shows: Like all time top 3?? House, Bones, and Planet Earth 2

book i’m currently reading: The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons (totally reading this for class but it’s also a fun read if you’re into psychology)

last thing i googled: Where my best friend works cause one of her co-workers is attractive and his profile is on the website and he has a photo with a fat cat and I’m in love

time: 10:56 pm

how many blankets do you sleep in?: One - I cocoon myself throughout the night

dream trip in order of OMG: There are so many dream trips.. I always dream of traveling... I’d love to go to any conservative safaris in Africa (my photographer dream!!!)... Alaska (or anywhere to see some type of northern lights tbh)... anywhere with pretty mountains, sign me the fuck up.

anything you want: I had too many dream jobs growing up as a kid so now that I’m at the age where I can make it happen, I have no idea what to do cause most of my dream jobs can’t pay the bills :)))

I’m tagging... @arobimarie @zackaran @alaskayin @perks-of-being-chinese and who ever else wants to do this for fun :3

#thanks for the tag!#i'm always down to do these tbh

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sumpix · 6 years

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Are humans really blind to the gorilla on the basketball court?

The fallacy of obviousness A new interpretation of a classic psychology experiment will change your view of perception, judgment – even human nature.

Scientific experiments don’t generally attract widespread attention. But the ‘Gorillas in Our Midst’ (1999) experiment of visual attention by the American psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris has become a classic. In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman highlights this experiment and argues that it reveals something fundamental about the human mind, namely, that humans are ‘blind to the obvious, and that we also are blind to our blindness’. Kahneman’s claim captures much of the current zeitgeist in the cognitive sciences, and arguably even provides a defining slogan of behavioural economics: in turn, as the economist Steven Levitt put it, ‘that one sentence summarises a fundamental insight’ about the life’s work of Kahneman himself. The notion of prevalent human blindness also fuels excitement about artificial intelligence (AI), especially its capacity to replace flawed and error-prone human judgment.

But are humans truly blind to the obvious? Recent research suggests otherwise. It suggests that this claim – so important to much of the cognitive sciences, behavioural economics, and now AI – is wrong. So, how could such an influential claim get it so wrong?

(via Are humans really blind to the gorilla on the basketball court? | Aeon Essays)

#gorillaglue #basketball court #blindness #science #experiments

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chachaelt · 3 years

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FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS. Read the following article available on the Wall Street Journal website and answer the questions.

What cocktail parties teach us

The Brain Is Wired to Focus on Just One Thing; Which Tasks Are Easier to Combine

Melinda Beck on Lunch Break looks at the "cocktail party effect," in which people are able to focus on one conversation while being aware of conversations going on around them. Researchers say we can train our brains to maximize this kind of awareness.

You're at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel level. Yet amid all those distractions, you can zero in on the one conversation you want to hear.

This ability to hyper-focus on one stream of sound amid a cacophony of others is what researchers call the "cocktail-party effect." Now, scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have pinpointed where that sound-editing process occurs in the brain — in the auditory cortex just behind the ear, not in areas of higher thought. The auditory cortex boosts some sounds and turns down others so that when the signal reaches the higher brain, "it's as if only one person was speaking alone," says principle investigator Edward Chang.

These findings, published in the journal Nature last week, underscore why people aren't very good at multitasking — our brains are wired for "selective attention" and can focus on only one thing at a time. That innate ability has helped humans survive in a world buzzing with visual and auditory stimulation. But we keep trying to push the limits with multitasking, sometimes with tragic consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get into traffic accidents as those who aren't.

Many of those accidents are due to "inattentional blindness," in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they aren't focusing on. Images land on our retinas and are either boosted or played down in the visual cortex before being passed to the brain, just as the auditory cortex filters sounds, as shown in the Nature study last week. "It's a push-pull relationship — the more we focus on one thing, the less we can focus on others," says Diane M. Beck, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.

That people can be completely oblivious to things in their field of vision was demonstrated famously in the "Invisible Gorilla experiment" devised at Harvard in the 1990s. Observers are shown a short video of youths tossing a basketball and asked to count how often the ball is passed by those wearing white. Afterward, the observers are asked several questions,including, "Did you see the gorilla?" Typically, about half the observers failed to notice that someone in a gorilla suit walked through the scene. They're usually flabbergasted because they're certain they would have noticed something like that.

"We largely see what we expect to see," says Daniel Simons, one of the study's creators and now a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. As he notes in his subsequent book, "The Invisible Gorilla" (co-authored with Christopher Chabris), the more attention a task demands, the less attention we can pay to other things in our field of vision. That's why pilots sometimes fail to notice obstacles on runways and radiologists may overlook anomalies on X-rays, especially in areas they aren't scrutinizing.

And it isn't just that sights and sounds compete for the brain's attention. All the sensory inputs vie to become the mind's top priority.

That's the real danger of distracted driving, experts say. "You regularly hear people say as long as your hands are on the wheel and your eyes are on the road, you're fine. But that's not true," Mr. Simons says.

2.5% The percentage of people who can multitask efficiently. Many more people only think they can.

Studies over the past decade at the University of Utah show that drivers talking on hands-free cellphones are just as impaired as those on hands-held phones because it is the conversation, not the device, that is draining their attention. Those talking on any kind of cellphone react more slowly and miss more traffic signals than other motorists.

"Even though your eyes are looking right at something, when you are on the cellphone, you are not as likely to see it," says David Strayer, a psychology professor and lead researcher. "Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's not that critical, but that 1% could be the time a child runs into the street," he adds.

Dr. Strayer's studies have also found that talking on a cellphone is far more distracting than conversing with a passenger — since a passenger can see the same traffic hazards and doesn't expect a steady stream of conversation as someone on a cellphone does. Listening to the radio, to music or to a book on tape also isn't as distracting, because it doesn't require the same level of interaction as a conversation. But Mr. Simons notes that even drivers may miss some details of a book on tape if their attention is focused on merging or other complex driving tasks.

Some people can train themselves to pay extra attention to things that are important — like police officers learn to scan crowds for faces and conductors can listen for individual instruments within the orchestra as a whole.

And the Utah researchers have identified a rare group of "super-taskers" — as estimated 2.5% of the population — who seem able to attend to more than one thing with ease.

Many more people think they can effectively multitask, but they are really shifting their attention rapidly between two things and not getting the full effect of either, experts say.

Indeed, some college professors have barred students from bringing laptop computers to their classrooms, even ostensibly to take notes. Dr. Beck says she was surprised to find that some of her students were on Facebook during her lectures — even though the course was about selective attention.

Still, she doesn't plan to crack down. "I just explained that doing Facebook in class means you will not learn as much, which will have consequences on the exam," she says.

Clearly, it is easier to combine some tasks than others. "Not all distractions are the same," says Dr. Strayer. Things like knitting, cleaning and working out can be done automatically while the mind is engaged elsewhere. But doing homework and texting simultaneously isn't possible. (Sorry, kids).

Even conversing and watching TV is difficult. "Just try conversing with your wife while watching football. It's impossible," jokes Mr. Simons.

PAY ATTENTION | How to stay in the zone

• Recognize your limitations. The brain can only fully attend to one thing at a time. • Make your senses work together. If you're trying to listen to someone in a noisy room, look directly at the speaker. • Focus on what's important. Many professions — from pilots to police officers — depend on keen powers of observation. Training and practice help. But experts say things like chess and videogames likely won't expand your overall attention skills. • Allocate blocks of time to specific tasks. Sometimes a deadline can force people to focus. • Avoid distracted driving. Don't talk on a cellphone, text or give voice commands while at the wheel.

ACTIVITIES

A - QUESTIONS

1. How does one of the researchers describe the phenomenon — the ability to hyper-focus on one thing we want to hear, even being amidst all kinds of noises —, avoiding the use of jargon and using clear trivial language?

2. Why aren’t humans good at multitasking?

3. What does one call the main cause of accidents brought about by unsuccessful attempts of multitasking?

4. Why were people who took part in the Gorilla experiment flabbergasted?

5. How do academics explain the results of such experiment?

6. Drivers talking on hands-free cellphones are just as impaired as those on hands-held phones because ______________________

7. What is the difference between looking at something and actually seeing it?

8. Which professions may lead people to train themselves to hyper-focus on relevant things?

B - WATCH THE VIDEO TWICE OR THREE TIMES AND FILL IN THE GAPS.

ANCHOR: What is the cocktail party effect?

MELINDA BECK: It’s a phenomenon where, in amidst of a ________ cocktail party, any kind of noises at a sporting event or newsroom... We are ______ ______ to focus in on the one conversation we wanna hear and somehow tune out everything else.

ANCHOR: And how come researchers and other scientists are _____ _____________ in this? Why is that? Why do they wanna know where this ability comes from?

MELINDA BECK: It’s part of this whole phenomenon of _________ attention wherein the human brain can _______ _______ focus in... _______ on one thing at a time. And this is a survival skill, you know, we’re _________ bombarded by this _______ and _________ stimulation. We couldn’t survive unless we could focus in like this. But we can also _______ ________ focus on one thing at at a time, and that’s... That’s what’s an issue in __________ driving and all other kinds of limitations of multitasking.

ANCHOR: Are there people who... Is there a small percentage of people who _________ have the super ability to focus on more than one thing or is that ???????????

MELINDA BECK: Yes, researchers at the University of Utah have found some of _______ people in the course of their other research. They think it’s about 2% of the population. The _______ problem is that most of us think we can do that and that can have some __________ consequences.

VOCABULARY

Copy the sentences where the words in bold below originally appear. The first two examples have been done for you.

- The brain is wired to focus on just one thing.

wired: in a nervous, tense, or edgy state : not much sleep lately — I'm a little wired. • under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

- Yet amid all those distractions, you can zero in on the one conversation you want to hear.

amid: preposition

surrounded by; in the middle of : our dream home, set amid magnificent rolling countryside.

• in an atmosphere or against a background of: talks broke down amid accusations of a hostile takeover bid.

yet: nevertheless; in spite of that.

to zero in: to take aim with a gun or missile: jet fighters zeroed in on the rebel positions; to focus one’s attention: they zeroed in on the clues he gave away about.

to pinpoint: to find or locate exactly: one flare had pinpointed the target / Figurative: it is difficult to pinpoint the source of his life’s inspiration.

to underscore: to underline, highlight, emphasize.

innate: inborn, inbred, natural.

to be buzzing with: (of a place) have an air of excitement or purposeful activity : the club is buzzing with excitement.

to turn a blind eye to: to pretend not to notice.

oblivious: not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one: she became absorbed, oblivious to the passage of time | the women were oblivious of his presence.

to toss: move or cause to move from side to side or back and forth.

to vie: compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something; to strive for superiority: contend, compete.

as long as: provided that, on condition that, on the assumption that, assuming that... we’ll take care of the horses as long as can stat at your house while you’ll gone.

impaired: disabled, handicapped, incapacitated; (euphemistic) challenged, differently abled.

to drain: to cause something to be lost, wasted or used up.

to converse: to engage in coversation.

hazard: danger, risk, potential source of danger, peril, threat, menace, problem, pitfall.

ostensibly: apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.

to crack down on (informal): to take severe measures against: we need to crack down hard on workplaces that break safety regulations.

#EFL #ELT #advanced #advanced students

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