PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phineas Gage, Atony, Sleep Paralysis
6 Feb 2014
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Information processing and self-deception: study on how psychology and medicine can affect ability to be an athlete. First task hold arm (up to elbow) in a bucket of ice usually people can do it for 30-40 sec. Type 1 heart is bad low life expectancy bad things. Type 2 good high life expectancy. Test to see what hear t you have is the cold tolerance test. Get them to run on treadmill then redo ice test. Half people are told cold tolerance should inc. and half are told it will dec. if they have a good heart. Your result depends on what you were told you would think that everyone would get better the second time due to practice effect people behave according to the behavioural measure they were told. 29/30 people said they did it unintentionally either lied or were unaware. 9 people said they did it deliberately but they thought the experimenters changed the water temp.
