CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Impact Bias, Schizophrenia
16 Dec 2017
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Cgsc 1001 - mysteries of the mind jim davies fall 2017. Sensory-like experiences based on internal rather than external information; to distinguish it from perception. On average, people think about the future once every 16 minutes. People who have trouble remembering (e. g. , the elderly, alzheimer"s patients) also have trouble imagining the future. Many of the same brain areas are active for both tasks (the default network. ) Future imaginings have less detail, and are more prototypical. Impact bias: we think that future emotional reactions will be stronger than they really will be. This is true even for imagined past events! Imagine the steps to achieve a goal, not the achievement of it. Aphantasics have no conscious experience of sensory imagination. Dreaming about somebody who looks like someone else but you know is your mother. Degraded memories are not blurred or pixelated. Attack formation on a chess board is not a visual property. We can retrieve based on word queries.
