Behavior and Psychology Notes

Imported from Google Keep on 2026-03-23.

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Differnent perspectives of behaviour is just temporal order of events

Munchasen syndrome (by proxy)

Descartes Error by Damasio

Paul McLan - Levels of brain - 1. automatic 2. emotion 3. thought

Book ian McEwan novel saturday - behaviour disinhibition due to hunnginton

VmPFC damanged people focus on outcomes rather than intention. They prefer punishing someone who accidentally murdered than someone who tried and failed. Because nobody died in the latter case.

Antonio Damasio book Feeling of What Happens About emotions

Trolly problem ans sophie choice are interesting eays to think about process of emotions and decision making.

Imp of the perverse by edgar allan poe doing the exact oppposite of what u think u dont want to do.

James lange theory- first body signals then emotion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%9Cine Society mov3Lange_theory

How much of environment dictates biology and reinforces certain kind of behaviour. For example, in an environment where aggression is rewarded. The testerone levels increase aggression. But that is different for someone who grew in a different environment. Testosterone amplifies.

Androgen insensitivity syndrome, Congenital adrenal hyperplasia showing that testostreone is responsible for Male phenotype and masculine behaviour

”Organism is just a vehicle for the genes, behaviour is just epiphenomenon that facilitates replication”. Chicken is egg’s way of making another egg

Puncuted equilibrium vs gradual. Jerks vs creeps.

Implicit Association test : test for biases

Obedeince and conformity popular experiments:

• Asch
• Miligram’s experiment to check obedience. Teacher and Student. Teacher giving shock as ordered by instructor
• Zimbardo’s stanford Prison experiment

”If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” from Gulag archipelago(gulag prison stories).

Neural Re-use: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20964882/ example: area for sensory disgust - insular has been also rewired to encode moral disgust

M’Naghten rule: Under diseased condition, ur crime is not a crime.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by hating him - brooke r t washington Hatred is exhausting. Forgiveness or indifference is freeing.

Links

• James–Lange theory — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%93Lange_theory
• Neural reuse — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20964882/