PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter Videos: Hard Wired, Eye Movement, Wishful Thinking
31 Jan 2017
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If the partner was a stranger the money made a selfish choice. If the partner was family or similar they made the prosocial choice. If monkey was unable to see the partner it would make the selfish choice. Individuals born to abusive, but raised by non-abusive did not become abusive parents: early experience is the way in which this transmission occurs not genetics. Images were such that they could be interpreted as letter or number (13) Letter = orange juice, led to people interpreting it as letter. Number = orange juice people reported seeing a number: eye movement was tracked to confirm that people weren"t lying, altering of perception is unconscious and can be influenced by things we don"t know about. When participants match words to images the amygdala response to african american faces disappeared: putting our reactions into words in our mind allows us to engage in interactions which are free of bias.
