PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phineas Gage, Prefrontal Cortex, Lisa Lopes
17 Mar 2016
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Announcement: exam 1 and take-home extra credit #1 scores posted. Non-experimental research designs: case studies, archival research, strengths and weaknesses. Case studies: analyses of the experiences of a paricular person or group: extraordinary experiences diicult or impossible to recreate, used mostly by: Behavioral neuroscience an issue with the brain or nervous system. He was a railroad foreman, in the summer of 1848. In order to lay train tracks, the ground needs to be lat. Any rocks in the way of the track were blown up by dynamite, which created holes through a tamping iron. One person would hold a hammer and the other person would hold the tamping iron. Phineas didn"t die, but ended up blind in his let eye. He would curse at women and children, he"d have crying its and anger its. This got researchers interested in the areas of the brain, and they found that. Archival research: using previously collected informaion to answer research quesions.
