Gittinger Seminar Notes - Lecture 11

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Lecture 11 - Arithmetic

• E memory likely to be visual. Visual cue can trigger entire scene. 122
• I remember name more, E remember face. 122
• I remember a name, E remember where they met the person. 123
• People known as being exceptional in remembering names are likely Ec. 124
• Japanese business cards with watermark pictures to help I's remember faces. 125
• E more likely to have "deja vu" experience. 126
• Eu walking into a store with sunglasses removes them - wants to see. 127
• PA turnpike signed saying "take off sunglasses" for tunnels is for I's. 127
• Losing vision, whether blindness, or old age more traumatic for E, especially Eu. 127 128
• Who made good resistance fighters in Philippines - US choose farm boy football captains - worst choice E who needed applause. 129
• Marcel Proust and isolation. 129 130
• Hemispheric brain function - I verbal, E visual. 131
• Extreme of verbal memory moves to autism. 131
• I child believe in fairies, E will go look. 132
• Ec becomes preoccupied with abstract things. 132
• I trained observer can be best observer - more reward. 133
• IF natural philosopher but few become philosophers - will be best ones. 133
• EF become philosophers and have to work at it. 133
• IR who is paying attention naturally learns arithmetic - particularly tables, best. 134
• ER takes more effort to learn tables. 135
• Arithmetic takes on emotional context early. 135
• IR and IF hit trouble with story problems. 136
• Mean arithmetic teachers Ec - saw it as indication of discipline. 136
• Almost all EFs went to pieces at some time. 136
• I who does arithmetic poorly not paying attention for some time. 138
• E makes the careless mistakes in arithmetic. 138
• High arithmetic (especially very high) in E is more intense than I. 139
• Arithmetic 2-4 above NL more common in E than I. 139