PSYCH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Utilization Behavior, Parietal Lobe, Shampoo
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Ambient echolalia the tendency to speak words heard in the background of a conversion, often in mid-sentence (fisher, 1988) the patient"s limb performs purposeful and often mischievous acts, dr. Strangelove-style, without his will (biran & chatterjee, 2004) A more florid version of utilization behavior that applies to settings (things you do in a grocery store, museum, or bedroom) rather than objects. For example, one patient proceeded to get undressed and into bed upon entering a room with a bed in it (archibald, mateer, & kerns, 2001; Psychological terms: automatic behaviors, procedural knowledge vs. conscious behaviors, explicit knowledge. Visual units are object shape and orientation sensitive. Connected to area f5, which is involved in grasping. The brain must perform two computationally distinct tasks with sensory information: Morphological similarity reflects genetic inheritance from a common. The concept of an animal model for cognitive/brain function is based on evolutionary ancestor homology.
