PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Visual Agnosia, Oliver Sacks, Facial Recognition System
19 Feb 2014
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Case studies: sacks (1985); gauthier, behrmann, and tarr (1999) Archival research: frank and gilovich (1988) Observational research: bowker et al. (2009, rosenhan (1973, simon and levin (1998) Descriptive research describes the characteristics and behaviors of individuals or populations. They are not necessarily designed to test hypotheses. Case studies are intensive descriptions and analyses of a single individual (shaughnessy, Phineas gage (damasio et al. , 1994; harlow, 1848) Victor of aveyron (itard, 1806: victor: had been completely isolated from human social interactions, acted like an animal. New doctor in the field took victor on as his project and tried to humanize him. Genie (curtiss, 1977: genie: neglected child, father locked her in closet from 2-12 years old, wouldn"t allow anyone to talk to her, when this was discovered, they tried to help her, humanize her, teach her language. Oliver sacks (awakenings, 1973; the man who mistook his wife for a hat, 1985; an anthropologist on mars, 1995).
