Although this effect would not have survived Bonferroni correction, ADHD group RTs appeared to fluctuate to a greater degree than those of the control group only in simple task contexts where demands do not unpredictably change on a trial-by-trial basis.
In "cognitive rehabilitation," therapists train patients in simple tasks that can make daily life much easier.
But in simple tasks — picking up a dropped sponge, for example — they readily came to the aid of humans.
Without it, people and places often go to pieces: apathy sets in, simple tasks take longer, there is less social contact and what little money there is goes on luxuries before necessities.
However, they were less likely to employ the lexicographic strategy in simpler tasks and when its use was difficult to justify, indicating an adaptive use.
The ability to estimate time intervals in the range of hundreds of milliseconds is crucial in many aspects of our perception, action and social interaction, such as in playing music, dancing, speech perception, and generation1,2, as well as in simple tasks, such as turn taking3.
Before Foldit, crowdsourcing largely meant engaging people in simple tasks, things that humans are reflexively good at.
Automated grading is already prevalent in simpler tasks like multiple-choice and math testing, but computers have yet to seriously put a dent in the most time-consuming of grading tasks: essays.
The past 10 years, however, have demonstrated the power of machine learning when these issues diminish: It has been used in speech and facial recognition, in warning systems such as predicting cyberattacks based on chatter and even in simple tasks like email filtering.
This "deep psychological fact" says that, other things equal, people normally find activities that call upon the exercise of their developed capacities to be more interesting and preferable to engaging in simpler tasks, and their enjoyment increases the more the capacity is developed and realized or the greater its complexity (TJ, 426/374).
