Thanks for the cautionary note--that leaves 90%, er, 80%. Or maybe the left half. Or the right half. Shoot, now I'm confused.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Jim Clark <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> wrote: > Hi > > Carol be very careful to bang the part of your head / brain that you do not > use! > > Jim > > James M. Clark > Professor of Psychology > 204-786-9757 > 204-774-4134 Fax > j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca > > >>> Carol DeVolder <devoldercar...@gmail.com> 06-Feb-11 10:48:43 PM >>> > When this Spring semester began a few weeks ago, I gave a short pre-test to > students in my 3rd-year level Brain and Behavior classes. One question read > something like, "Generally we use _____." the answers were a. 10%, b. 20%, > c. either the left half or the right half of the brain exclusively. d. our > entire brain. Sadly, in two sections of approximately 30 students, a little > over half chose an incorrect answer. This is after three years of college, > and all of these students have had Intro Psych and I know they covered at > least one chapter on biopsych in it. I didn't look at which item they chose > most often, but I may go back and do just that. I wonder if I give it at > the > end of the semester I can compare and see an "improvement" from 10% (choice > a) to 20% (choice b). Sigh...makes me want to bang my head against the > wall. > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > > > So, I'm watching the last couple of minutes of the Super Bowl (for > non-U.S. > > Tipsters, it is a football [no, not soccer] game) and a commercial for a > > new > > movie comes on. Now, I've tried to turn off my attention when > commercials > > come on but then I hear a voice over say something like "what if you > could > > use more than 20% of your brain?" It is for a movie starring Bradley > > Cooper > > and Robert De Niro (Oh! How the mighty have fallen!) titled "Limitless". > > My first response was "well, I hope those folks would stop making > > commercials > > like this" but I digress. This was the first time I heard of people only > > using 20% > > instead of the traditional 10% (for debunking the 10% myth of brain > usage, > > see: > > http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html > > and/or > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%25_of_brain_myth ) > > > > Now I'm wondering: "Did I mis-hear the commercial? Did they really say > > 20% instead of 10%?" A quick search of the InterWebs indicate that > > indeed, we must be getting smarter because we are now using 20%. > > Consider the following article that previews the movie "Limitless": > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/22/limitless-trailer-bradley-cooper > > > > So, if drugs can make you use more of your brain, clearly drugs are a > > good thing (which is an argument I imagine used by undergraduates who > > use provigil and adderall to keep pepped up during the semester). In > > any event, I guess we should expect students to ask about why we only > > use 20% of our brains and have an answer prepared for them: > > > > "Only some people in Hollywood appear to use only 20% of their brains." > > > > -Mike Palij > > New York University > > m...@nyu.edu > > > > > > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. > > To unsubscribe click here: > > > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=8558 > > or send a blank email to > > leave-8558-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > > -- > Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. > Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology > St. Ambrose University > 518 West Locust Street > Davenport, Iowa 52803 > 563-333-6482 > > This e-mail might be confidential, so please don't share it. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=8560 > or send a blank email to > leave-8560-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=8564 > or send a blank email to > leave-8564-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 This e-mail might be confidential, so please don't share it. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=8565 or send a blank email to leave-8565-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
