Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Right Fielder, Left Fielder, Hunter-Gatherer

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Powerful medium for memory and stir emotions (social) Although have bad memory, than can especially responded to previously played music. Working with normal curves/data to find mode, median and mean. Tell percentage of population within a given sd. Birds have big hippocampus because of spatial abilities (memory) Males might be larger due to better spatial ability. Corpus callosum females have better multitasking skills. Broca"s area larger in females, more verbal. Cambridge sex differences on day one of babies. Female babies will spend longer looking at a face. Male babies will spend longer looking at a mechanical object. As adults, females excel at recognizing facial emotions. As adults, males excel at visualizing objects in 3d space. Both eyes are seeing both aspects of the scene. If corpus callosum is cut, info still crosses to each hemisphere, but info cant go from one hemisphere to the other. Pic goes to disconnected right hemi brain successfully.