fixed patterns

 

Everyone knows how it feels to be stuck in a certain pattern of behaviour. Repetitive patterns can frustrate us and eventually lead to a visit to a psychiatrist or a prescription for pills.


Failure to think clearly can reduce digit span performance, i.e. the ability to pick up a certain number of units of information, process them and reproduce them. Most people who hear a random quantity of numbers in succession are able to remember and reproduce around seven numbers. The average figure for people in prison, for example, is four.