martes, 15 de marzo de 2011

sensory deprivation

How do you imagine if for some reason we could not use our 5 senses hear, smell, taste, touch, and see. In personal I would survive a single day without only one. Each of the 5 senses have a remarkable task in the human body. Last week in phsychology class we saw a video that was about sensory deprivation, in other words it is the isolation of somenone or the lack of stimulation for the brain. Humans need to interact with each other thats why god made two kinds of people, girls and boys, like some people say "One man is not an Island". Sensory deprivation was used in the years of 1950´s during the Korean war, they used it to torture the opponents and try to exctract the information by applying mental and physical torture. In the video a group of phsycologists are studying the effects that sensory deprivation have on the brain. Six people volunteered to make the test. At first they were tested to see the mental skills and abillity. Then they were locked in a room for 48 hours non-stop. Without any person to talk to, anything to entertain them, the main idea was to decrease the amount of stimulation a person have. During the 48 hours almost all six people were anxious to get out and walked back in forth to do something to stay awake. In fact one of them was getting little crazy because he said he saw a snake, which was not true, there were no snake in the room. Indeed sensory deprivation can cause tremendous damage to our brain.


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