Re: [xmca] groundbreaking research using categorization tasks

[Martin Kramer <mkramer65@gmail.com>]

Hi there,
I've been following the discussions here frequently. Glad to have found
them. Much of them still too difficult for me to follow (though I'm slowly
catching up). This one needed no further explanation...

   1. Happy birthday to Mike Cole!
   2. I'm bound to do some experimenting this weekend ;-)

thanks for sharing!
Martin,
Austria



2012/4/13 mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>

> Just think what an equal amount of vodka could accomplish!
> :-)
> Mike
>
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > As AERA begins, and as we wish Mike Cole a happy birthday today, I think
> it's appropriate to acknowledge that the sort of categorizing tasks that
> Luria used in Uzbekistan, and that Mike and Sylvia Scribner adapted in
> Liberia, are still being used to study the recesses of the human mind. For
> your consideration:
> >
> > Study: Beer fuels male creativity
> > 10:57 am April 12, 2012, by George Mathis
> > It's long been known that beer makes women prettier, but a new study
> concludes beer also makes men more creative.
> > The New York Daily News reports<
> http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/beer-men-smarter-study-article-1.1059752?localLinksEnabled=false>
> the experiment, like most really good ones, was conducted in a bar. The
> article does not say who paid for the study, but I'm thinking it was a
> group of men or a beer company.
> > "We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory
> tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks,"
> psychologist Jennifer Wiley, who presumably was not drinking, says in the
> article, which I have forwarded to my wife.
> > Wiley parrots what any man who has had to come up with an excuse for
> running late while sitting on a bar stool will tell you: "Sometimes the
> really creative stuff comes out when you're [drinking]."
> > For the experiment, conducted by University of Illinois researchers, a
> group of 40 men was given three words and asked to provide a fourth word
> that fits a pattern. For example, "marine mammal," "Heidi Klum," "divorce"
> could be followed by "Seal."
> > Half the men remained dimwittingly sober, while the other half was given
> two pints (hopefully of a microbrew) and likely began flirting with
> waitresses and/or researchers.
> > The men who drank solved 40% more of the problems than their sober
> counterparts. Also, the drinkers finished their problems in 12 seconds
> while it took the non-drinkers 15.5 seconds, the Daily News reports.
> > Women did not participate in the study, perhaps because men can't think
> straight around such delightful creatures, according to an earlier study<
> http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/study-finds-men-suffer-mental-decline-thinking-women-article-1.1038382
> >.
> > The Daily News article also cites the literary genius of famed drinkers
> Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski, but not George Mathis.
> > Alas, it was almost the perfect scientific study.
> >
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