PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Life University, The Scientists, Visual Cortex
14 Apr 2018
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Think about what it takes to learn biology. Not textbook biology, the kind you learn in high school with microscopes and dissecting kits. Rather the kind you learn on your own, as a young child encountering the vast and diverse world of living things. Psychologists are very interested in how the mature mind sort the living world and where we put ourselves in relation to other life forms. Many living and non living things move; but many do not. The researchers showed a group of college students a long list of words, one at a time and very rapidly. Some of the words were the names of plants, others, animals, and still others, nonliving things. The nonliving items were further divided into nonmoving man- made objects such as brooms, nonmoving natural features such as boulders, moving artifacts such as trucks and, finally, moving natural phenomena such as rivers.
