BE PSYCHO-ED!



My very first tutorial for the semester (from module that rewards a credit) starts my Week 3 rolling. Psychology.

The tutorial was filled with fun. It wasnt what i had expected. It wasnt dry and just discussion. Before my brain nerves and cells were set to work, we were engaged in 2 experiments.

1. Nose illusion
2. The hand illusion

(thats what my tutor calls it, hahas)

My senses cant really bring me to experience the nose illusion but i felt the hand illusion!

We were given a fake hand that we were supposed to place it on the desk and under the desk, lies our real hand on top on a cardboard. Another partner of yours will stroke your real hand and the fake hand in synchrony for 1 min. In that 1 min, i felt that my hand was that fake hand!
It also works when the fake hand was not on the table. This means, my partner just stroke the table and my hand. I bursted into laughter when i thought that my hand was the desk. Damn hilarious.

Well, but you really have to stare at the desk/fake hand and your partner has to be good at stroking. LOl.


Its amazing how the brain works. From digestions to perception, emotions, sexual desires, attention etc..its all the wonders of the brain and im stillllllll trying to digest these elaborate details of the brain - lobes, nerves, hormones, genes, etc. But i guess its right to say that to understand psychology,we have to approach from the level of a brain first before level of person and level of a group. So, work hard :]



maybe those were illusions too.

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