Top Hat Questions

What are some common things memory athletes are asked to memorize during competitions?

Cards, faces and names, sets of numbers

What did Nelson Dellis say to do to remember not to touch your face?

Draw black dots with a sharpie on the back and fronts of your hands

T/F: Memory athletes have exceptional innate memory abilities.

False, It requires a lot of training

What famous catalogue is used to demonstrate memory techniques in one of the videos from class?

Ikea

Bonnie has ordered her monthly supply of medicines through the mail for the past five years. Except for one order, all orders have arrived within two business days. Bonnie placed an order yesterday, and she expects to receive her order tomorrow. Bonnie is using

Inductive reasoning

In the Tower of Hanoi problem, the ________ state involves having three discs stacked on the left peg, with the middle and right pegs empty.

Initial

Describe the popular method used by memory athletes to remember many pieces of information

Method of Loci strategy of memory enhancement which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information

Who are the memory champions featured in the videos from class?

Nelson Dellis and Yanjaa Wintersoul

Consider the following argument: Observation: Here in Dallas the sun has risen every morning for the last 1.685 trillion days. Conclusion: The sun is going to rise in Dallas tomorrow.

The argument is strong because there are a large number of observations

Premise 1: All dogs are cats. Premise 2: All cats say meow. Conclusion: Therefore, all dogs say meow

The conclusion is valid.

Janet is alone in a room that contains a chair and a shelf with a book resting on top. She attempts to retrieve the book, but the shelf is a foot above her reach. How will Janet retrieve the book? Psychologists would NOT classify this scenario as a problem because

The solution is immediately obvious

Insight refers to

a sudden realization of a problem's solution

Giselle is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo in NYC. If we judge using the probability of Giselle's being a model quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using

the representativeness heuristic