PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phineas Gage, Frontal Lobe

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

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Mueller lyer illusion: something as simple as length of a line can be so drastically different among cultures, westerners always seem to be the outliers. Variability: no two individuals ever do, say, think, or feel the exact same. Complexity: there are many processes, factors, and variables that shape our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Reactivity: people often think, feel, and act one way when they are being observed and a different way when they are not. When people know they are being studied, they do not always behave as they otherwise would. Phineas gage: 25-year-old foreman who worked for a railroad company in vermont in. Key limitation of case studies = human variance. Value of case studies : offer useful hypotheses that can later be tested more systematically, provide useful insight into rare/unusual phenomena, case studies are often opportunities to do an in-depth analysis of a phenomena, trade breadth for depth.