PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sleep Paralysis, Hemispatial Neglect, Phineas Gage
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Costs: expensive, drain on resources for the parents, large amount of parent investment. Benefits: we only produce one or two offspring, able to develop more psychologically, develop more social complex behaviors, evolved due to more social interactions, more intense learning and behaviors. Phantom limb syndrome: amputees have sensations of lost limbs. Mirror box therapy: person believe lost hand was clenched. They clench right hand and let go and are given visual feedback that their hand is unclenched and they are finally released from feeling like their hand is clenched. Recognition emotional significance: neurons in the ffg respond to faces. Info from here travels to amygdala which assesses the emotional significance of a stimulus: capgras" delusion: damage to certain areas of the brain can make a person feel like close family members are imposters. The emotional significance following the recognition doesn"t exist. Brain creates a running narrative to explain the events and stimuli: hemi-spatial neglect: ignoring half of the world.
