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I'm very bad at visualizing things, and I tend to think almost exclusively in words. For example, when I'm daydreaming I tend to daydream conversations, i.e. imagining what I would say to someone in a certain situation.
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How do you even go about testing associative thinking? Rapid fire one word response questioning?
nobody really tests "thinking."
they test behavior and make inferences about what that behavior probably means in terms of the theories and models they're trying to test.
That's why I used " ". I'm trying not to drown everybody here in psychobabble, since it's pointless to give the proper terms if only a few people reading know what they are really supposed to mean.
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Someone showed me this a week or two ago. It's not so much about visualization as it is a 'trick' to turn multiplication into addition. It works by breaking out the terms at each order of magnitude and then letting you count out X, Y times. It's particularly obvious if you start at one digit and work your way up. 4 x 3 is a grid of 12 dots: 4 dots, 3 times. 23 x 3 is two grids of 6 and 9 dots with the order of writing them down implicitly multiplying the 6 by the factor of 10 lost in drawing the lines. 23 x 43 gives you four grids, but two of them are in the same order of magnitude (the center column), so are all added together before the implicit multiplication by 10.
It's a neat-looking trick but I'd be very hesitant to teach it to anyone who hadn't already mastered multiplication. It lets you avoid learning multiplication tables or the various mental tricks for performing multi-digit multiplications quickly by allowing you to just 'count up' the answer the way a child first learning addition does.
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nobody really tests "thinking."
they test behavior and make inferences about what that behavior probably means in terms of the theories and models they're trying to test.
That's why I used " ". I'm trying not to drown everybody here in psychobabble, since it's pointless to give the proper terms if only a few people reading know what they are really supposed to mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cflVtgKZU90&feature=related
Someone showed me this a week or two ago. It's not so much about visualization as it is a 'trick' to turn multiplication into addition. It works by breaking out the terms at each order of magnitude and then letting you count out X, Y times. It's particularly obvious if you start at one digit and work your way up. 4 x 3 is a grid of 12 dots: 4 dots, 3 times. 23 x 3 is two grids of 6 and 9 dots with the order of writing them down implicitly multiplying the 6 by the factor of 10 lost in drawing the lines. 23 x 43 gives you four grids, but two of them are in the same order of magnitude (the center column), so are all added together before the implicit multiplication by 10.
It's a neat-looking trick but I'd be very hesitant to teach it to anyone who hadn't already mastered multiplication. It lets you avoid learning multiplication tables or the various mental tricks for performing multi-digit multiplications quickly by allowing you to just 'count up' the answer the way a child first learning addition does.