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| Why does your brain lie to you? |
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because u often have to react quickly to emergencies and opportunities, ur brain usually aims to get a half-assed answer in a hurry rather than a perfect answer that takes a while to figure out --> brain takes shortcuts and makes a lot of assumptions
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| If you were a witness would u be able to remmember everything from a scene perfectly |
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| No, while the brain may perceive many aspects of a scene initially, it quickly forgets them. The brain commits many lies of omission, as it discards most of the information in the world as soon as it is deemed to be unremarkable |
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| What is easier looking at a photograh or playing chess |
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photograph -- one must identify INDIVIDUAL objects in a visual scene in 3d.
A computer can play chess but it cannot percieve a scene perfectly since it cannot distinguish objects as seperate from others. The brain sorts out these possibilities based on its previous experience with objects, including having seen the two objects seperatly and in other combinations |
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| Is thinking logically difficult |
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Yes, logical thinking requires a lot of effort.
The brain decides whether to take shortcuts, depending on how it values speed against accuracy in a particular situation. Most of the time, your brain favors speed, interpreting events based on rules of thumb that are easy to apply but not always logical. |
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-controls speech
-responsible for math and other forms of logical problem solving
-source of many misremembered or confabulated detail
-home of the "interpreter"
-seems to have an intense need for logic and order -- so intense that if something doesn't make sense, it responds by inventing some plausible explanation |
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-more literal and truthful than Left Brain
-controls spatial perception and the analysis of objects by touch
-excels at visual-motor tasks |
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| If you were given a problem, would u automatically think logically |
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| No, people are likely to use mental shortcuts in almost all situations unless they are strongly cued that they should be using lobic instead |
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| What is one reason for stereotyping peeps |
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| based off a strong tendency to attribute groups of related characteristics to people without much evidense. Its a way of estimating likely outcomes with people. |
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| True or False: many of the stories we tell ourselves don't even reflect what's actually happening in our heads. |
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| True: study of patients with disconnected right and left halves of their brain's cortex (gave patients objects and asked them to pick up related pictures, since brains couldn't communicate they came up with a false/wierd answer) --> scientists concluded that the left side of the brain contains an "interpreter" whose job is to make sense of the world, even when it doesn't understand what's really happening |
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| Is our visual memory good |
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| Describe the flaws of our visual memory |
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| We perceive only a fraction of what's going on in the world; memory of the past is unreliable and perception of the present is higly selective |
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| True of False: We use only 10% of our brains |
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| False: you use your whole brain every day. If big chunks of brain were never used, damaging them would not cause noticeable problems. This is emperically not the case. |
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