From bogus@does.not.exist.com Fri Jul 27 08:59:11 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Fri Jul 27 09:01:06 2007 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <5f.ab74971.26fbd536@aol.com> I totally agree with you about how distracting cell phones can be! I don't think that people who are talking on them realize how badly they are driving. When he compared talking on a cell phone to driving drunk that amazed me. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Fri Jul 27 08:59:11 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Fri Jul 27 09:01:07 2007 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Depth perception is something of interest to me. How many of you pay attention at how far something is or how close for that matter? Do we do it in our daily lives without realizing how much? Depth perception is very important when driving a car for instance. If you are not accurate on your interpretation then you are likely to get in an accident. I personally don't have very good depth perception when driving, particularly at night. I think I am a pretty good distance away from an object when the person in the passenger seat might be gripping the handle on the door because I'm so close. We don't always judge correctly the depth of an object. Maybe this is why baby's are often afraid of their crib. They are standing inside but if young are afraid to climb out due to a lack of development of the depth perception. Often times they might become very afraid whereas, older baby's have no problem climbing out because they are a little bit more developed. Of course this doesn't help my problem with the lack of a good depth perception while driving. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Fri Jul 27 08:59:11 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Fri Jul 27 09:03:07 2007 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <20001211025054.23032.qmail@web9606.mail.yahoo.com> I just watched the most interesting documentary on 60 Minutes that made me think of our cognitive psych class. This segment was about an issue currently being researched called brain fingerprinting. Brain fingerprinting reads the brains response to words that are presented. There is a difference in the brains response to familiar and unfamiliar stimuli. The whole idea for brain fingerprinting is to use it in court to determine if a person is innocent or guilty by how he/she's brain responds to specific stimuli shown. Some of the stimuli is directly associated with the crime, and if the brain responds a certain way it can be determined if the person really remembers the stimuli. I think this is an interesting idea, but first has to be researched before we rely on it in court. The researcher on 60 minutes said "The brain never lies", and I say the brain never lies, but it is not always accurate. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com