Doodling Helps Boost Your Memory

Yes so its true. I happened to bump into it on Yahoo....

Here's a paragraph...


"If someone is doing a boring task, like listening to a dull telephone conversation, they may start to daydream," study researcher Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, said in a news release issued by the journal's publisher. "Daydreaming distracts them from the task, resulting in poorer performance. A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without affecting performance on the main task."

For the experiment, a two-and-a-half minute listing of several people's names and places was played for test subjects, who were charged with writing down only the names of the people said to be attending a party. During the recording, half the participants were asked to simultaneously shade in shapes on a piece of paper without attention to neatness. Participants were not told they were taking part in a memory test.

When the recording ended, all were asked for the eight names of those attending the party as well as eight place names mentioned in the audio. Those asked to doodle wrote down, on average, 7.5 names and places, while those who didn't doodle listed only 5.8.

"In psychology, tests of memory or attention will often use a second task to selectively block a particular mental process," Andrade said. "If that process is important for the main cognitive task, then performance will be impaired. My research shows that beneficial effects of secondary tasks, such as doodling, on concentration may offset the effects of selective blockade."
In everyday life, Andrade said, doodling "may be something we do because it helps to keep us on track with a boring task, rather than being an unnecessary distraction that we should try to resist doing."


So next time you are having Sejarah class or any other subject that involves listening to teacher for the whole hour....

DOODLE TO REMEMBER WHAT TEACHER SAID TO AVIOD GETTING LOW MARKS IN EXAMS!! XD

*out*

Can you see...?

Here's something I've known for a long time but I've never told anyone about it. Some of you might notice while others don't.

I noticed, did you?

If not, then here we go....

Menu's....

Pizza Hut, Mc Donalds, Dominos Pizza etc. These 3 examples have one thing in common which is, they sell food. Right, obviously. Another thing in common is that they each have their own website. Anyway.... To waste no more time, let me start.

Take a look at their menu's the next time you go there. Lets do Pizza Hut. Ok... on a Pizza Hut menu, you'll have the pizzas, the sensasi sets and the Hut Power Meals blah blah blah. Ok, now take a look at the pictures. You'll see

a jar/cup of Pepsi,

soup and/or Breadstix,

pizza and/or pasta.

Take a look at a few pics and you'll see they all have something in common.

You'll see that the regular pizza with the olives on are actually the same pizza. Same goes for the soup, the Pepsi and the pasta.

I mean, how can you have 2 cups of Pepsi with the same amount of ice in it, and arranged in the exact order?

Which brings us to the conclusion that the pictures above are all photoshopped!! XD

First they take a picture of one cup of Pepsi, and then the pizza and everything, then they put it all together into one picture. It saves time taking one set after another, and putting it in photoshop only requires copy and paste and rearranging. XD

Take a look at them again, and its true.

For those of you who knew before this, your observant.

For those who never knew before this, food matters more than a picture. A picture is a picture... so what if its photoshopped!?!

I'm hungry now. And Pizza Hut sounds like a good idea today.

Ciao.

Its another end of a month

My blog has not been updated, yes I know, and I'm sorry.

I've just been so busy lately. Mostly caught up with school stuff....

Mostly Choral speaking... Mr Eugene is really pushing us to our limits. One person does one tiny mistake, re-do from the top. English society is also another one... I have been elected president this year again. Supervising teacher is Pn. Shoba which I really don't mind. I think Pn. Shoba is ok. Some students don't like her... you know who you are.... *stares at them*.

Oh and I also joined PSS. My first day was on Monday and I learned eveything I had to learn. Arrange books, stamp this, key in this, write this... everything. All learned. =D Now I just gotta remember it. But I think I'll be okay. I like the library and I love books. =D

I don't really have much to post noww..... but when I do, I will!!

Now, I feel these 3 things....

Tired

Tired

And Tired

The Cast Of Spongebob Photoshopped.

My lastest creation is finally alive!! 3 weeks of photoshopping and now its on my BLOG!!! Ready??? Lets see it!

GRACE as SPONGEBOB!

NIGEL as PATRICK!

KIM as SQUIDWARD!

AH SHEONG as MR. KRABS!

JEREMY as PLANKTON!

HUI LENG as SANDY!

RHON as GARY!

MADDIE as PEARL!

PIK KEI as MRS. PUFF!

YINGS as LARY!

JG as BARNACLE BOY!

and

CHESTER as MERMAID MAN!

Special thanks to:

Nigel, for helping me decide who's who.

and

all of you who have their faces here. Most are candid shots... XD