Week 2: the games we play

My game group from yesterday played Cranium. There were all different cognitive tasks involved in Cranium. After all the game is called Cranium.. I definitely used perception when my partner, Sara had to move my arms like a puppet to get me to guess what she was trying to act out. She moved my arms in different ways, doing different things to get me to correctly guess what the word was. I used attention when Sara was telling me different traits of a movie star that i had to guess. Sometimes, she would tell me bits of information that weren't as important as others, and I had to single out the important information so that i could correctly guess. Reasoning was a big part of playing Cranium because we had to make decisions about how to act out our words in a very limited amount of time. There was no time for unnecessary movements. If this was a FRQ it would be worth 100 points because it's the only FRQ that we were assigned today... right..?
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