PSY 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Circulatory System, Heredity, Neurotransmitter
27 Jan 2017
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Chapter 2 psychopathology biological and psychological theories. People who suffer brain damage or lesions show problems in psychological functioning that are specific to that area of the brain. Cerebral cortex: plays a role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, language and consciousness, major developmental phase between ages 5-7, 9-11, and adolescence, 2 hemispheres. Temporal lobe memory, emotion, hearing, and language. Frontal lobe decision-making, problem solving, and planning. Parietal lobe reception and processing of sensory information from the body. Responsible for: biological drives (eg. eating, drinking, sex, emotions (eg. anxiety and aggression, formation of long-term memories. 3 main structures: amygdala fear, emotional regulation (negative), sadness, hippocampus memory, hypothalamus stress, hpa, motivational drives, eating disorders, pleasure and pain. Central nervous system: brain and spinal cord (sends messages from brain to body, peripheral nervous system. Automatic nervous system (regulates cardiovascular system and endocrine system) Too much of too little at a given synapse means messages wont be sent.
