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Psychological Research
Can week old Pizza cause psychedelic hallucinations?
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We tend to grossly underestimate the dangers of false
intuition
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This is known as' 'hindsight bias '' or the' 'Iknewitallalong ''
phenomenon
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in science
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when you come up with a testable
prediction, that 's your hypothesis
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This is a problem with one popular type of
psychological [UNK] case studies
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I
could ask a room full of students at a pacifist club meeting what they think about arms control,
but the result would n't be a representative measure of where students stand
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The American Psychological Association suggests that you acquire everyone's informed
consent to participate in your experiment
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sometimes one or both
groups are not informed about what 's actually being tested
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experimental group one gets a low dose of caffeine
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Once you do everyone, turn them loose in the maze and wait at the other end with a
stopwatch
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The Chemical Mind
Our endocrine systems have a few important hormone brewing glands
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the pituitary gland is the most
influential gland in this system
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in our next lesson, we 're gon na get all up in your
brain and delve deeper into the different components of your nervous system
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Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain
Franz Joseph Gall believed that a persons personality was linked to their skull morphology
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phrenology was dismissed as a cult pseudoscience because it turns out your cranial
contours tell us exactly nothing about what 's happening inside the brain
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The resulting explosion caused
the rod to shoot like a bullet up through his left cheek and out of the top of his head
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after a few months of
convalescing, he was pretty much healed up and moving around like he used to
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saying that he was no longer like himself
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Phineas would lose a quarter of his brain and he 'd be just fine
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brain Scans show that nearly every
region of the brain lights up during even simple tasks like walking and talking
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The old brain systems keep our body 's basic functions running smoothly; the sort of stuff any
animal might need
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for higher functions,
we look to the limbic system
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The hypothalamus regulates body temperatures, circadian rhythms and hunger
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some tasks are distributed to one side, but the
sides are deeply and constantly connected
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the rest of your grey matter is made up of association areas that
are related to higher mental functions like remembering and thinking
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this week's episode will focus
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we learn how biology and
psychology are intertwined in how we sense and perceive the world around us
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