Psychology

Question 1

Anna Lembke on Hidden Brain: The modern world has greatly increased four properties of products…

Answer 1

(1) Quantity
(2) Availability
(3) Potency
(4) Novelty

Question 2

Kahneman’s “two selves” are…

Answer 2

the Experiencing self and the Remembering self

Question 3

Kahneman: people’s memory of how pleasurable or painful an experience was is affected by the average of two things:

Answer 3

The level of pleasure/pain when:
(1) It was at its peak and
(2) At the end of the experience

Note that duration has fairly little effect

Question 4

Kahneman: an experiment showing the conflict between Experiencing self and Remembering self is…

Answer 4

…the “cold hands” experiment

People had the experience of (1) 60 seconds of very cold water or (2) 60 seconds of very cold water plus 30 seconds of less cold water. When asked which they wanted to repeat, they chose the second

Question 5

Bessel van der Kolk: what are four things that the ‘drugs’ model of treatment for mental disorder fails to take into account?

Answer 5

1. We can (need to) heal by restoring relationships and community
2. We can heal by using language to define what we know about ourselves
3. We can heal by regulating our own physiology, e.g. through breathing, movement and touch
4. We can create the right social conditions to help people thrive