PSYC 2410 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 notes.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

In this chapter, we lay a foundation regarding the brain and methods used to study the brain. We begin with an example of a bizarre syndrome that results from brain damage. Capgras syndrome: emotional responses are not active when certain objects/people are seen. - recognition of parents is there, but parents are seen as imposters (so not actually the parents) because the warmth people normally feel towards their parents is missing. - the lack of emotional responses leads to very bizarre delusions. The simplest fact illustrated by capgras syndrome is that different parts of the brain perform different jobs. Researchers began to realize this in the nineteenth century by studying the cognition and behaviour of patients with lesions to the brain: phineas gage was one such famous patient. He was completely changed and became an angrier , more unpleasant person.