PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Steven Pinker
Document Summary
Sometimes after a brain injury, personality traits emerge/are enhanced. Different from animals in that only humans can process language. Ex: you can train a monkey to drive a car but the monkey will stay if the traffic light indicates so. However humans will not follow blindly and associate what a red light means/can explain things. Human mind is far superior in decision making. Holographic idea: not real but mainly about how light is being played/brain is processing can create a new hologram. Vision is holographic: we may see a square but brain is interpreting square. As far as we know, there is no limit to memory. Feed-forward systems control behaviors or processes by providing advance information. Feedback returning a part of output signal to the control devices for the purpose of fine-tuning behaviors . Move to upper left - finding someone like their mother. External locus of control responsibility for behavior.