Its Not What It Seems

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method of storage and memory recollection. Therefore, these memories are far from the actual event that an individual may have witnessed. According to David J. Linden, “ Our brains are messing with the data”(Linden 83). The brain has been proven to highlight certain aspects of the sensory perception and completely forget and leave out other aspects (Linden). This highlighter process is directed by a person’s emotions. While emotion is playing such a pivotal role in daily behavior, it would seem unwise to assume that reason plays a very important role in decision making . To say that reason is at all applicable to defining human behavior would be to falsely assume that the information taken in through the five senses is pure data. It has been proven that there is emotional saturation and underscoring that tweaks and alters all events That move into memory. Thus the driving force behind human behavior is emotion and not rational thought.
Taking into account Linden’s ...

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to decipher the inkblots. It is reasonable to conclude that emotion plays a dominant role in determining gut reactions and therefore greatly influencing human behavior.
Much like the inkblots in Rorschach study left little room for cheating and false presentation of an individuals behavior, Pavlov uncovered a similar idea through his study of dog salivation. This study first deals with simple reactions to what are referred to as stimuli. In this case study food is the stimuli for salivation to occur. On the surface this seems to be a simple cause and affect exercise that has a logical explanation. As the study progresses however, reason falls short as to why footsteps a seemingly ...

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