Yet the majority of the assessments used by the PDs during their teaching experiences focused on questions and tasks that required lower-order cognition, despite engaging students in a variety of activities in class that required higher-level thinking.
First, they performed a series of tasks that required sustained attention.
I used to think young learners would struggle with tasks that required initiative, creative thinking or independence.
Interventions: Subjects performed 3 different tasks that required manipulation of objects with the simulator.
They have largely been used in factories to perform repetitive tasks that required speed, precision and force.
Reilly liked tasks that required creativity: no one would actually launch a bus into a volcano (presumably), so his team built a miniature version.
Robotic arms, behind windows, were doing most of the work, while the mortals did tasks that required fine motor skills, like plugging tiny components into place.
It was curious to us that Jacob seemed to handle mental stress well but became flustered by physical tasks that required hand-eye coordination.
In the same study29, the IFS network was particularly active during tasks that required more complex cognitive processes, for example, reasoning, planning and mental rotation.
When more powerful individuals worked alone or on tasks that required less coordination with others, they performed better than anyone else; but when they worked together on tasks that required more coordination with others, those same powerful individuals performed worse than others.
They were used for powering water pumps and printing presses and for completing certain other tasks that required only limited power output.
