Simon Marmion

(noun)

Born c. 1425 at Amiens, France, died 24 or 25 December 1489, Valenciennes. A French or Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy in the Southern Netherlands.

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  • Illuminated Manuscripts

    • Simon Marmion was perhaps the best known and most successful artist specializing in this area, although van Eyck is thought to have contributed to the Turin-Milan Hours as the anonymous artist known as Hand G.

  • Simón Bolívar

  • Unconscious Perception

    • One example of priming is in the childhood game Simon Says.
    • Simon is able to trick the players because of priming.
    • By saying "Simon says touch your nose," "Simon says touch your ear," and so on, participants are primed to follow the "Simon says" direction and are likely to slip up when that phrase is omitted because they expect it to be there.

  • Non-Rational Decision Making

    • Simon defined two cognitive styles: maximizers and satisficers.
    • German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer goes beyond Simon in dismissing the importance of optimization in decision making.
    • Examine alternative perspectives on decision making, such as that of Herbert Simon and Gerd Gigerenzer, which outline non-rational decision-making factors

  • German Migration

    • The persecution of the Mennonites, followers of Menno Simons and other Anabaptists contributed to early waves of German immigration to North America.

  • Defining Intelligence

    • Binet's research assistant, Theodore Simon, helped him develop a test for measuring intelligence.
    • It became known at the Binet-Simon Scale, the predecessor for the modern IQ test.
    • In 1940, David Wechsler became a major critic of general intelligence and the Binet-Simon scale.
    • He was a very influential advocate for the concept of non-intellective factors (variables that contribute to the overall score in intelligence, but are not made up of intelligence-related items, including lack of confidence, fear of failure, attitudes, etc.), and he felt that the Binet-Simon scale did not do a good job of incorporating these factors into intelligence. 

  • French Painting in the Baroque Period

    • Important painters of 17th century France include Simon Vouet, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Georges de la Tour. 17th century painting in France was divided: on one hand there was influence from the Italian Baroque style as seen in the work of de la Tour; on the other was a distinctive turn towards a rigid, Classical style that was favored by the monarchy, and exemplified by the works of Le Brun, Poussin, and Lorrain.
    • Simon Vouet is known for introducing Baroque style painting to France.

  • History of Intelligence Testing

    • This term was later used in 1905 by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, who published the first modern intelligence test, the Binet-Simon intelligence scale.
    • Because it was easy to administer, the Binet-Simon scale was adopted for use in many other countries.

  • Suggested Listening

    • Polyphony is rare in contemporary popular styles, but examples of counterpoint can be found, including the refrain of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations," the second through fourth verses of Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," the final refrain of Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours," and the horn counterpoint in Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger's "Lavender Road. "

  • Behavioral Economics: Irrational Actions

    • This graph shows the three stages of rational decision making that was devised by Herbert Simon, a notable economist and scientist.