A short presentation I gave as part of outreach to secondary students.

1. Psychology
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Bed
Rest
Awake
Tired
Dream
Wake
Snooze
Blanket
Doze
Slumber
Snore
Nap
Peace
Yawn
Drowsy
Remember these words

3. Stroop Effect
• Work in pairs
• Using the flash cards take turns to ask
your partner to tell you the COLOUR that
the word is printed in.
• Are any of the flash cards harder?
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4. Stroop Effect Explained
• So why is it so hard to say the colour?
– There is interference between the information,
what the words SAY and the COLOUR of the
words.
– This causes a problem for your brain.
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5. Stroop Effect Explained
• There are two theories which try to explain this
– Speed of Processing Theory: the interference occurs
because you read the words automatically this occurs
faster than naming the colour.
– Selective Attention Theory: the interference occurs
because naming colours requires more attention than
reading words.- you read more often than you name
colours so it becomes automatic.
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6. Synaesthesia
• Continuing with a theme of colour, imagine
what it would be like if your senses were
confused….
• Has anybody ever had a smell or a song
that reminded them of a particular thing?
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7. Synaesthesia
• The most common form of Synaesthesia is Colour-
Grapheme, where syenesthetes see words or letters as
particular colours.
• "I realized that to make an R all I had to do was first write
a P and draw a line down from its loop. And I was so
surprised that I could turn a yellow letter into an orange
letter just by adding a line." Pat Duffy.
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Imagine if life was
coloured like this.

8. Synaesthesia
• One of the more disruptive forms of
synaesthesia is Lexical-Gustatory
synesthesia.
• This is where the synesthete actually
tastes the word.
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Synaesthesia
VIDEO HERE

10. Who are these people?
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11. Who are these people?
• Imagine if you couldn’t recognise these
people?
• Imagine if you couldn’t recognise your
friends, family, or even your own face.
• Patients with prosopagnosia have a brain
disorder which means they are unable to
recognise faces.
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12. Who are these people?
• Oliver Sacks-The Man Who Mistook His
Wife for a Hat
• Dr P-could not recognize his wife from her face but he was able to
recognize her by her voice. His recognition of pictures of his family
and friends appeared to be based on highly specific features, such
as his brother's square jaw and big teeth.
• “He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife’s head, tried to
lift it off and out it on. He had apparently mistaken his wife for a hat!
His wife looked as if she was used to such things.” pg 10
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Remember these words
On your paper try and remember as
many words as possible from at the start
of the session.

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Remember these words
Bed
Rest
Awake
Tired
Dream
Wake
Snooze
Blanket
Doze
Slumber
Snore
Nap
Peace
Yawn
Drowsy
Did you have any
extra words? Such as
SLEEP?
A simple memory task like this can show how the brain fills in with what you
think you experienced.
Other experiments have investigated this in more depth-such as the hot air
balloon experiment.

15. Spot the difference..
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16. Visual Illusions
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17. The Maggie Thatcher Effect
• It is difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside
down face.
• This suggests that we process faces by analysing the
structure and the configuration of features.
• Interestingly reports suggest that prosopagnosic’s do not
suffer from this effect. Suggesting that their brain
disorder maybe due to damage to the area of the brain
which analyses facial.
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18. Attention
• Embed
video…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
vJG698U2Mvo
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19. Attention
• So how many did you see?
• Did you see the gorilla?
• When Chabris and Simons did this study half of
the people who watched the video and counted
the passes missed the gorilla.
• This suggest that we are missing a lot of what
goes on around us, and that we have no idea
that we are missing so much.
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Topics During a Psychology
Degree
Psycho Pharmacology
Eye Witness Testimony
Development of
drawing and language
Extreme Survival
Psychology of Magic
Crowd Behaviour Mental Disorders
Memory
Disorders of the Brain

21. Research in the Department
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Human Computer
Interaction Pain Research
Self Harming
Second Life
Positive Psychology
Life Styles Epilepsy
Festivals, Drugs,
Underground parties
Education Technology

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Why Do Psychology?
Transferable Skills
Communication,
Numeracy,
Independent Learning
Team Work
Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
Critical Thinking
Essay Writing.
Variety of Jobs
Academia
Teaching
Researcher
Human Resources
Management
Market Research
Accounting
Psychologist
Mental Health Care
Child Care

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Any Questions?