PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - The Reward, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Martha Savage

Document Summary

Pre-frontal cortex being able to predict what"s in your best interest, the part that helps you do the right thing, not the easy thing. It was believed that virtues, values and ethics could not be studied scientifically. Orbito-frontal cortex- allows you to understand society and social behaviors. Phineas gage: pillar of the community, family man, transformed into a jerk. Could not maintain relationships, abandoned religion, developed certain. Wrong addictions: the reason why his personality changed was because his orbito-frontal lobe was taken out and thus his judgment on social norms was impaired. Three levels of brain structure and function: molecular the synapse in detail, cellular the structure of the reward system. Large scale anatomy what are the different parts that make up the brain. Evil genius mission basically in order for a message to be sent between neurons the process is as follows. Although one would assume that the neurons are connected, this is in fact untrue.