Re: [xmca] groundbreaking research using categorization tasks

[Luisa Aires <laires11@gmail.com>]

Happy birthday Mike :-)
Luísa

On 13 April 2012 15:24, Martin Kramer <mkramer65@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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