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The biological perspective - The mind and the body.
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THE BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE * The mind ~ what contains our memories, thoughts, emotions, and controls our actions * The body ~ the vessel that interacts with the physical world * Mind and body ~ united: we need both to function effectively * Oliver Sacks (1985)> "The Man who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" - Mr P. faced neurologist Oliver Sacks with his ears, not his eyes - Gaze fixates on Sacks's features one at a time - Mistakes his wife for a hat - Unable to recognize rose: "convoluted red form with a linear green attachment" => smells it and realizes what it is - ==> Could recognize geometric shapes - senses work - Agnosia ~ inability to recognize people/objects even when basic sensory modalities are intact. Senses tell us about an object/person but we cannot recognize them * Phantom Limb Phenomena - People perceive an amputated limb as if it were still there - May feel burning, cramping, shooting pains...
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