PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Aisle
20 Aug 2013
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Daniel connerman with his book thinking fast and slow. Discovered peak and phenomenon: how we come to understand our memories, the best part (the peak) and how it ended is how we remember our memories. Language can reflect psychological states and can affect psychological states. The words you have dictate how you see things. Putting a linguistic label on something changes our memory accord. Certain class of words affect who we are: content words (nouns/verbs, function words (pronouns/prepositions) Account for half the words we use. In the frontal lobe (where our functions and personal thoughts, personalities, etc. are) Women use social words more [interested in other human things] Men use articles more [more concrete, interested in objects and things] We, us and our are used differently between men and women. 2 ways of thinking about problems are in terms of algorithm and heuristic.
