PSY100H1 Lecture : PSY100 Lecture #4
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The biggest area that differentials us from different organisms. Different parts of the prefrontal cortex is responsible for different processes. Losing the pfc individual loses the aspect to reason, such as trust, decision making, sensing danger and important day to day reasoning. Damaging the pfc, lost of motivation, no emotional response, self-destructive actions, poor decision making. Gut feelings using is the best at reasoning. We tend to distrust our unconscious mind/our id. Self-awareness is when we are more attentive to our body. Creates noncoconscious bias that serves to facilitate cognitive (conscious) evaluation of the. Gambling task that simulates real-life decision making. Once the player comes to the conscious decision that one deck is better, they start making the right decision all the time (picking from the good deck) Before the people had figure themselves, their autonomic somehow starting to figure it out.
