PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Synaptic Pruning, Synesthesia, Neural Development
17 Apr 2014
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Cultural norms dictate what we find to be normal. Social contracts are involved in all human affairs, including our collective perceptions of our own minds. Psychopathologies, from hysteria to depression, are not discovered, but made". They are a byproduct of our social norms, they are not discovered as that would mean they were always there. Dsm is written by a series of psychiatrists and things come in and out of fashion some things that were previously called a mental disorder can be removed and not make it to the new edition. Synesthesia: colors one sense gets jumbled with another music can elicit. 1/5000 people see different colors on the letters while we just see black letters on a white screen. It is involuntary and automatic therefore it is a legitimate condition. They have a better than average memory they see things in colour which helps recall later. Their feelings are consistent (i. e. same letters with same colours)
