PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Phineas Gage, Sleep Paralysis, Hindbrain
Document Summary
Brain taking info and making sense of everything around you. Connections are very critical for allowing complex behaviour to occur. The brain: does everything for us all sensory information processed by the brain and get perecption of whats going on. Top down processing make sense of what"s going on. Narrative: idea being built that"s making sense: how we process information, advertised studied for effects on athletics-psychological information effect ability as an athelete. Put elbow into ice water 30-40s baseline, expose participants on how psychology can effect being athlete, two different types of human hearts type 1 low life expenctency, type 2 high life expectency. Behavioural test to indicate type of test cold tolerance after going through exericise-arm back into ice water (before, half long period in ice=good heart, other half- can"t tolerate cold long = good heart). Different score depend on what they told them. Depends on what you were told holding long good heart = hold longer=behavioural measure.
