Expanding Minds / Increasing Performance

This week we are posting  5 "Insight Problems" one for each day of the work week.

Thursday February 24, 2011, Fourth Day

Todays problem is:

A young boy turned off the lights in his bedroom and managed to get into bed before the room was dark. If the bed is ten feet from the light switch and the light bulb and he used no wires, strings, or other contraptions to turn off the light, how did he do it?

(Baker-Sennett & Ceci, 1996; Jacobs & Dominowski, 1981; Schooler & Melcher, 1995).