ACTIVITIES

Simple Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test

This test, designed by the Swiss psychologist André Rey in 1941, will allow
you to assess your spatial perception and your visual memory. Observe the
drawing above for approximately 2 minutes, and then try to reproduce it
from MEMORY.

Score
Score 2 points for each drawn element remembered correctly: a complete
straight line or a circle. There are in all 44 straight lines and circles that
compose the drawing. 76 to 88 points indicate that you have an excellent
memory; 60 to 74 points indicate that you have a good memory; 46 to 58
points mean that you have an average memory. If you have less than 46
points, you should read more puzzle books/magazines to boost your brain!
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Stroop Test
Name the shapes and their related colors in the 4 x 4 aligned boxes above as
fast as you can. Do not read the words below the shapes! For example, even
if the sentence “Blue Square” is printed under a red triangle, you should say
“red triangle” instead. Say the colors and shapes as fast as you can. It is not
as easy as you might think... If you complete this attention test in less than 16
seconds, you have a VERY flexible brain.

The Stroop test is one of the most commonly used diagnostic tools when
determining an attention problem. It involves focusing on one particular
feature of a task, while blocking out other features. It indicates how well you
can override a habitual response in favor of a novel one The “Stroop Effect”
is named after J. Ridley Stroop, who discovered this strange phenomenon in
the 1930s.
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Two-color marbles
Spot all the yellow-AND-blue marbles in the picture above. Time allowed 3
minutes! This test has been created by psychologists to demonstrate that in
visual perception, search is very difficult when you have to find an object
with a combination of two identical attributes (colors), than with more
disparate attributes (color and form). This test is also a good test of some
forms of color-blindness.

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Invisible Triangles
Can you perceive six (6) triangles in this figure?

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Free!

You will have to spend $35 to conduct this jolt. But the insight your
participants gain from it is priceless.
Buy two gift certificates: One for $10 and another for $25. Make sure that
these certificates will appeal to everyone in the audience. One approach is to
buy gift certificates from a credit card company.
At the beginning of the session give everyone a card with this information:

Win a Fabulous Prize!

At the end of this session, I will randomly pick one of these cards. The
person who filled out the card will win a prize of his or her own choice.
Please write your name here:
_______________________________________ .
Please select one of these two gift certificates as your prize. (Note one prize
is FREE! while the other prize costs some money.)

Item Your cost

$10 Gift Certificate FREE!

$25 Gift Certificate $10

Circle your choice.

Pause for a minute or so. Collect the cards and set them aside.

Here's a suggested script for what to say next. Of course, use your own
words to convey these points.

In his book, Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely reports on experiments in

which a significant majority of participants opted for the free gift certificate
—even though they would make a bigger profit by choosing the other option.
Ariely's point is that FREE! is a powerful concept that frequently makes
people behave in an irrational (and predictable) fashion. As he explains in his
book, the difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the
difference between one cent and zero cents is huge.
Tell the group that you will not waste their time by analyzing the data from
the cards. Instead, ask participants to raise their hand if they opted for the
FREE! Alternative. (Point out that this quick check of the data may be
unreliable because some participants may be too embarrassed to confess their
irrational choice.)

Proceed by randomly picking a card. Give the person the appropriate gift
certificate (and collecting the $10, if appropriate).

Learning Point: Think before you rush to grab FREE! Offers. Calculate the
real cost and real benefits. Think carefully about alternative choices.

Reversed Faces
Find the differences between the boys and if you can not then turn the picture
upside down.
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Fish or a Girl?

Double meaning illusion, does this picture show a plate with a fish on it or
does it show a girl's face?

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MEMORY TEST

Here's a quick jolt that helps participants discover basic psychological facts
about our memory.

You can conduct this jolt with any number of people in about 10-15 minutes.
You don't need any special supplies other than paper and pencil.

Brief participants. Tell them that you are going to administer a memory
test. You will read a standardized list of words. Participants should listen
carefully to these words without writing them down. Later, you will test to
see how many words each participant can recall.

Present words. Read the following list of words. Pause briefly between one
word and the next. Do not change the sequence. One of the words (night) is
repeated three times.
• dream
• sleep
• night
• mattress
• snooze
• sheet
• nod
• tired
• night
• artichoke
• insomnia
• blanket
• night
• alarm
• nap
• snore
• pillow

Administer the recall test. Pause for about 10 seconds. Ask each participant
to take a piece of paper and write as many of the words as he or she can
remember. Pause for about 40 seconds.
Explain your intent. Reassure participants that you are not interested in
finding out how each person performed on the test. Instead, you are going to
use the test to explore four basic principles about memory.

Debrief. Here are four important principles about memory. Explain each of
them, using data from participants' performance on the test:

• Primacy and recency effects. Ask participants to raise their hands if they recalled
the words “dream” and “pillow”. Explain that people remember the first and the
last things in a series. Most participants will have written dream and pillow
because they were the first and last words in the list.

• Surprise effect. Ask participants to raise their hands if they recalled the word
“artichoke”. Explain that people remember things that are novel or different. Most
participants will have written artichoke because it is different from the other words
in the list.

• Repetition effect. Ask participants to raise their hands if they recalled the word
“night”. Explain that people remember things that are repeated. Most participants
will have written night because you repeated it three times.

• False-memory effect. Ask participants to raise their hands if they recalled the
word “bed”. Reveal that this word was not on your list. Explain that the brain
closes logical gaps in what it hears, sees, or reads, frequently remembering things
that did not take place. Most participants will have written bed because it logically
belongs to this list (even though you never read it).

Encourage action planning. Ask participants how they would use these four principles
to help them remember new terms and ideas in the training session. Give examples such
as, "To compensate for the primacy and the recency effects, pay particular attention to
ideas presented during the middle of the training session. Make use of the repetition effect
by repeating these ideas to yourself several times."
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Hidden Faces

Find the hidden faces in this optical illusion

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Optical Illusion

Is it a face or is something written? Is it written LIAR?

 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

“Booklet of Activities”

Submitted to:

Nadir Kolachi
Lecturer Training & Development

Compiled by:

Mehreen Abdul Wahid (4788)

Sara Zeeshan (3410)