PSYC 1010 Lecture : Lecture #10.docx
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The assertion is that for every thought and behaviour that a corresponding physical want taking place in the brain. Electrical stimulation of the brain (brain mapping) (esb) Dominant hemis (language) left hemisphere for most people that are right handed. A lot of what we know about hemispheric research of the brain was derived from split- brain patients. If you think of what your mother looks like she was last pissed of, requires right hemisphere, eyes shift to the left. Stan coren: psychologist are university of columbia theory: if your are left handed something screwed up during fetal development of at birth. He says people were meant to be right handed, and left handed people have a shorter life span. He says they die 7-8 years younger, 5x more often related to accidental reasons. So many things are designed for right handed people ex. Argued that people that are left handed have more accidents at work.