This will drive you nuts til the instructions sink in

25 October 2003, 15:36

Check out:

http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf

LouisB

Have fun [Razz]

25 October 2003, 16:34

ncboman

good one.

26 October 2003, 06:58

Marterius

It is known as the stroop-effect, when we automatically read the text instead of concentrating on the actual colour. I always let my students do this, they get very frustrated! [Big Grin]

26 October 2003, 07:25

Mort Canard

For me the trick was not to focus on the word but to look of a portion of the last letter in the word.

Mort Canard

26 October 2003, 09:51

Dutch

Curious, I had no problems with it at all? Dutch.

26 October 2003, 13:44

Michael Robinson

I am the Master! But I read Marterius's post first. [Big Grin]

26 October 2003, 18:11

djl4570

100% on the first time but it's still a mind bender.

27 October 2003, 06:45

Marterius

quote:
Originally posted by Mort Canard:
For me the trick was not to focus on the word but to look of a portion of the last letter in the word.

Mort Canard

That is the best strategy!

Actually, I will let my fresh students do this next Tuesday when I start a new course. My favorite trick with them however, is to suddenly whack a 1 meter long fiberglass ruler in a table, and then tell them that they have just experienced an orientation-reaction. I then explain the psychological and physiological phenomena of the orientations-reaction and there is no need to ask about it in the examination as they never will forget it. [Eek!]

No one, as far as I know, has yet shit themselves during that lecture, but I have to admit that it is a risk...
[Frown]

27 October 2003, 07:54

KMuleinAK

maybe I am color blind............?

28 October 2003, 01:16

HenryC470

I was above average on the first try. Then I remembered something I read about split-brain people. These are patients who have had the corpus callosum severed (a bunch of nerves that connects the two halves of their brain). I think this is done to control a particularly bad seizure disorder.

Anyway, they have one hell of a time coordinating motor function and speech with visual stimuli, because of how each function (and each eye) is wired to either half of the brain. They or their doctors learned a trick that informs both halves of the brain what the individual has decided to do. I used that trick and got 100% on the test.

H. C.

29 October 2003, 14:45

rootbeer

Marterius...
Can you tell me why I flinch my eyes when I am in close proximity to a very loud noise that is repeated over and over, such as a double-acting diesel-fired hammer pounding away at a bridge pile or something like that? The hammer is at a distance but not too far away, I am certain deep within my mind that it is not a threat or danger to my person, yet I flinch when it fires the driver head up and down. Any ideas or comments?

30 October 2003, 14:16

DigitalDan

I am a retired air traffic controller, I'm already nuts, what is your point? [Razz]

31 October 2003, 23:56

Marterius

quote:
Originally posted by rootbeer:
Marterius...
Can you tell me why I flinch my eyes when I am in close proximity to a very loud noise that is repeated over and over, such as a double-acting diesel-fired hammer pounding away at a bridge pile or something like that? The hammer is at a distance but not too far away, I am certain deep within my mind that it is not a threat or danger to my person, yet I flinch when it fires the driver head up and down. Any ideas or comments?

Spontaneously I should say that you are consciously aware that there is no treat, but your nervous system still react as if there could be. It is the same as moving your finger fast towards your eye: you will blink, despite the fact that you know that you would not hit yourself in the eye. I guess it is the same as flinching when you shoot a heavy caliber rifle. I am sure there are more elaborate theoretical models for this, but this is not my own area - my own area is cognitive psychology and in particular some aspects of planning and decision making.