Category: LEISURE
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RIDDLES – I
A PUZZLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY! unknown On Valentine’s Day: A woman gets into an accident and can’t remember who she is or her family.The police ask her if there’s anyone they could call. She thinks for a bit and says, “On Valentine’s Day, we had pie and talked about a George Orwell…
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NUMBER PYRAMID 1
Can you complete this number pyramid? Each brick in the pyramid should contain a value equal to the sum of the two blocks directly below it. see answer keys below ? ? 228 ? ? ? ? 63 57 ? ? ? ? ? 26 11 12 ? ? …
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SUDOKU 1
The rules of Sudoku are very simple: place the numbers 1 to 9 into each row, column, and bold- lined 3×3 box. Each number must appear only once in any row, column or box. See answer keys at the bottom 5 2 8 4 …
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VISIT TO A SLEEP LAB: SLEEP STAGES
WAKEFULNESS:The eye movement lines look like mirror images of hills and mountains. The brainwaves on the screen are small, rapidly but irregularly oscillating lines, like a very nervous person might make if trying to draw a straight line. This low, fast, random pattern of brain waves is called beta waves, and they indicate wakefulness.The muscle…
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PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: THE CASE OF THE MUSICIAN
One excellent example of deliberate practice is solitary practice, which successful students use to increase their mastery of new music pieces and techniques. Music teachers typically evaluate students’ current performance at weekly lessons to assess improvement, diagnose weaknesses, and help the student overcome problems by assigning focused practice techniques. We were able to compare several…
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PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: EXPERTS Vs NOVICES
The differences between expert and novice performance cannot be explained by innate differences in basic speed and capacity. They are attributable primarily to complex, highly specialized mechanisms that allow experts to perform at superior levels in representative domain-specific tasks. In fact, the only basic innate difference that has been conclusively shown to differentiate expert and…
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PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: HOW EXPERTS REACH HIGH LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE
Recent reviews (Ericsson, 1996, 1998b, 2001; Ericsson & Lehmann, 1996) dispel the common belief that “talented” expert performers attain very high levels of performance virtually automatically through cumulative domain-related experience. Instead, empirical evidence strongly implies that even the most “talented” individuals in a domain must spend over ten years actively engaging in particular practice activities…
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PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: THE PROCESS
When we approach a new situation, our knowledge based on prior experiences will influence our ability to define and represent a problem correctly. In fact, we may fail to notice the existence of a problem if it runs counter to our strongly held expectations. To the extent that an individual has misleading expectations or schemas…
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PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CONTEXT
Problem definition is affected by social context in any domain. Individuals can become unable to redefine problems or evaluate progress on current problems due to the attitudes of the group. For example, in an office environment, individuals may be familiar with a particular computer application for word processing. However, the program eventually may become outdated…
