PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Noam Chomsky, Gestalt Psychology, Joseph Breuer
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Psychology: the evolution of a science: psychology"s roots (pg 2-12) The technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fmri, allows scientists to. Scan a brain and see which parts are active when a person reads a word, sees a face, learns a new skill, or remembers a personal experience. Professional pianists have less activity than novices in those parts of the brain that guide these finger movements (krings et al. , 2000). If we want to understand how something works, we need to know what it is working for. Psychological processes are said to be adaptive. Example: the case of elliot; surgeons discovered a tumor in the middle of his brain and were able to remove the tumor and save his life. At first, seemed more likely than usual to make bad decisions (when he could make decisions at all), and soon his bad decisions became truly dreadful ones. Problem was that elliot was no longer able to experience emotions.
