Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 2

Source from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=syXplPKQb_o

Confirmation bias: http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/confirmation_bias.htm

MIT source: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/science-research/

Incredible amount of information given for an introductory class. Highly recommended for a freshman and any other person who wants to know about psychology, its history and uses.

Wild Child The Story Of Feral Children

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h-GhHCBo7I

Genie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

• This is a sad story of abuse, negligence, and delusions.
• This case puts the behavioral psychology at test.
• Something curios about this sad and terrible event in Genie's life, is that she was almost isolated from the outside world, but as one can understand from the documentary, and read something about it, one can know that she could not speak for many reasons but the one I think was also important was due to fear. Her father was incredible delusional and terrible enough to create a false state of peace by the lack of sounds or conversations, if he heard something, he would hit the cause, therefore, intimidating the person, something important to know about the behavioral psychology and Genie, that states that we are kind of empty boxes that are filled. But how can feral children understand something? by instinct? and what does the brain hides from us?
• The real experiments were made to know more about the brain and the use of language, something very important to our evolution and progress as a society and as an individual.