Psychology

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BedRest

Awake Tired

Dream Wake

Snooze

Blanket Doze

Slumber SnoreNap

PeaceYawn

Drowsy

Remember these words

Stroop Effect

• Work in pairs

• Using the flash cards take turns to ask your partner to tell you the COLOUR that the word is printed in.

• Are any of the flash cards harder?

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Stroop Effect Explained

• So why is it so hard to say the colour?

– There is interference between the information, what the words SAY and the COLOUR of the words.

– This causes a problem for your brain.

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Stroop Effect Explained• There are two theories which try to explain this

– Speed of Processing Theory: the interference occurs because you read the words automatically this occurs faster than naming the colour.

– Selective Attention Theory: the interference occurs because naming colours requires more attention than reading words.- you read more often than you name colours so it becomes automatic.

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Synaesthesia

• Continuing with a theme of colour, imagine what it would be like if your senses were confused….

• Has anybody ever had a smell or a song that reminded them of a particular thing?

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Synaesthesia• The most common form of Synaesthesia is Colour-

Grapheme, where syenesthetes see words or letters as particular colours.

• "I realized that to make an R all I had to do was first write a P and draw a line down from its loop. And I was so surprised that I could turn a yellow letter into an orange letter just by adding a line." Pat Duffy.

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Imagine if life was coloured like this.

Synaesthesia

• One of the more disruptive forms of synaesthesia is Lexical-Gustatory synesthesia.

• This is where the synesthete actually tastes the word.

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Susanna Martin Bath Uni Taster Psychology

Synaesthesia

VIDEO HERE

Who are these people?

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Who are these people?

• Imagine if you couldn’t recognise these people?

• Imagine if you couldn’t recognise your friends, family, or even your own face.

• Patients with prosopagnosia have a brain disorder which means they are unable to recognise faces.

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Who are these people?

• Oliver Sacks-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

• Dr P-could not recognize his wife from her face but he was able to recognize her by her voice. His recognition of pictures of his family and friends appeared to be based on highly specific features, such as his brother's square jaw and big teeth.

• “He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife’s head, tried to lift it off and out it on. He had apparently mistaken his wife for a hat! His wife looked as if she was used to such things.” pg 10

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Susanna Martin Bath Uni Taster Psychology

Remember these words

On your paper try and remember as many words as possible from at the start of the session.

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Remember these wordsBed

Rest Awake Tired

Dream Wake

Snooze

Blanket Doze

Slumber SnoreNap

PeaceYawn

Drowsy

Did you have any extra words? Such as

SLEEP?

A simple memory task like this can show how the brain fills in with what you think you experienced.

Other experiments have investigated this in more depth-such as the hot air balloon experiment.

Spot the difference..

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Visual Illusions

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The Maggie Thatcher Effect

• It is difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside down face.

• This suggests that we process faces by analysing the structure and the configuration of features.

• Interestingly reports suggest that prosopagnosic’s do not suffer from this effect. Suggesting that their brain disorder maybe due to damage to the area of the brain which analyses facial.

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Attention

• Embed video…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

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Attention

• So how many did you see?

• Did you see the gorilla?

• When Chabris and Simons did this study half of the people who watched the video and counted the passes missed the gorilla.

• This suggest that we are missing a lot of what goes on around us, and that we have no idea that we are missing so much.

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Susanna Martin Bath Uni Taster Psychology

Topics During a Psychology Degree

Psycho PharmacologyEye Witness Testimony

Development of drawing and language

Extreme Survival

Psychology of Magic

Crowd Behaviour Mental Disorders

Memory

Disorders of the Brain

Research in the Department

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Human Computer Interaction Pain Research

Self Harming

Second Life

Positive Psychology

Life Styles Epilepsy

Festivals, Drugs, Underground parties

Education Technology

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Why Do Psychology?

Transferable Skills Communication,

Numeracy, Independent Learning

Team WorkQuantitative and Qualitative Data.

Critical Thinking Essay Writing.

Variety of JobsAcademiaTeaching

ResearcherHuman Resources

ManagementMarket Research

AccountingPsychologist

Mental Health CareChild Care

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Any Questions?