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QUESTION 4

Mark each time Lehrers offers a definition. How elaborate is each definition? What does the sequence of these mean in aggregate?

• Carolyn Weisz is a textbook example of a high delayer.(P 49)
• “The East Indians would describe the Africans as impulsive hedonists who were always living for the moment and never thought about the future,” he says. “The Africans, meanwhile, would say that the East Indians didn’t know how to live and would stuff money in their mattress and never enjoy themselves.”(P 51)
• There is something deeply contradictory about Walter Mischel—a psychologist who spent decades critiquing the validity of personality tests—inventing the marshmallow task, a simple test with impressive predictive power. (P 52)
• In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it’s what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings. (P 54)
• In the second, known as the Go/No Go task, subjects are flashed a set of faces with various expressions.(P56)

For a few of the words he used, I had to look around the word for clues on what he meant. He uses a lot of metaphors to help the reader understand what he is talking about. Not too many of the definitions are straightforward. He sometimes is more specific with what he is trying to describe. 


Question 5

Have you found any metaphors in this text?  Did you expect to find metaphors or metaphoric language in a scientific text?

 In his writing, Lehrer uses a lot of metaphors. Sometimes it is to define a word or to have the reader become a part of the study. I was not surprised to find metaphors in his writing. I found his writing to be an outstanding way to present scientific facts. It helps to engage the reader.