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Old 03-19-2007, 01:15 PM
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Have you found that this scenario stuff works even better the more complicated and specific the info gets? Psych Example: the "Garcia Effect" describes discovery that rats and other animals are biologically wired, or "prepared" to associate illness with something they've eaten. There were all sorts of Qs in quizzes about taste-aversion learning and whether a rat would be more likely to vomit if it'd made an association with "bright noisy water" or something else. At this point in the studying I know I was ready to vomit and in my despair will admit to coming up with this, (which unfortunately I remember to this day):

The Grateful Dead are on stage with several statues of Venus di Milo (statues being my visual cue for anything "classical"). Jerry Garcia is singing about "Bright Noisy Water" and playing to a huge audience of rats. "But they didn't count on Preparedness.." he sings. One rat says to another, "Isn't this in bad taste?"

Sad, but it works (!)
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