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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS: WELL DEFINED Vs ILL-DEFINED PROBLEMS.
There are two classes of problems: those that are considered well defined and others that are considered ill defined. Well-defined problems are those problems whose goals,...
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TEST
TEST YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, aka EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT (EQ) BASED ON 5 EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES: SELF-AWARENESS, MANAGING EMOTIONS, MOTIVATING ONESELF, EMPATHY AND SOCIAL SKILLS.THIS IS ONE OF MANY...
IQ TEST – 1
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT SCORES ON AN IQ TEST ARE NOT AN ACCURATE AND SUFFICIENT REPRESENTATION OF ONE’S INTELLIGENCE. THIS IS PURELY MEANT TO BE...
BRAIN TEASERS – I
TRY TO SOLVE THE BRAIN TEASERS BELOW AND HAVE FUN DOING IT.THE ANSWER KEY IS AT THE END OF THE TEASER, BUT TRY TO NOT GIVE...