Well, had my ONE class that I'm taking for the first time since March 4th. March 11th was a snow day (we ALWAYS get snow days, even when there isn't much snow, like on the 11th) and the 18th was spring break. Bad times to be in Gerontology class.
Anyway, today we covered a lot of stuff, two chapters, but we still got out early. One of the things we talked about was creativity in old age, and we took a test that they give to see how creative people are based on one type of divergent thinking. This test was four letters (in our case, SALT, but they could be any letters) and we had to write as many four word sentences using the letters in that order in two minutes.
Some oddball sentences I came up with:
See, Amish love tales (my personal favorite)
Stan almost loved Tina
Santa always loves toast
I came up with six sentences in all, and the average is 6-8
The next test, which measured a different type of divergent thinking, was to name as many holidays, religious or secular, in three minutes. I came up with 22, but I think I may have gotten some wrong, because I wrote Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and I don't really know if you'd call those holidays. I also wrote some foreign holidays (Canada & Australia Day, Bastille Day, Cinco de Mayo) but those count, of course.
The average for that is 14, so if I did it right, I'm somewhat above average.
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