PSYC 101 Chapter 2: Psychology 101- chapter 2
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Infantile autism (mute)- motor movement, not a disorder. Facilitated communication: ability to assist the communication disabilities. Jenny facilitator assist jenny"s hands able to communicate on paper despite her autism. Ideomotor effect- facilitator movements unknowingly influences the patients. The beauty and necessity of good research design: Prefrontal lobotomy (lobotomy) treatment for mental disorders. Severed neural fibers that connect the brain"s frontal lobes to the underlying thalamus cut nerves connecting frontal lobes. Successful but not systematically researched raised other illness, did not fix initial problem. Heuristics and biases: how we can be fooled: Heuristics mental shortcuts/rule of thumbs make sense of our world. Cognitive miser- mentally lazy trying to conserve mental. Judge probability of an even by its superficial similarity to a energies through simplifying the world. Representative heuristics like goes with like prototype. Base rate how common a behavior or characteristic is. Base rate fallacy is when we neglect to consider base rates.
