PSY 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Frontal Lobe, Synaptogenesis, Executive Functions

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3301
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

Ability to attend to external and internal stimuli, identify them and plan meaningful responses to them. We string together movements, thoughts and events = innate human way of thinking e. g. natural selection required us to learn this to survive e. g. We string together movements, thoughts and events = innate human way of thinking e. g. natural selection required us to learn this to survive e. g. hunting to eat. Proficient readers read most words (except very long ones) principally through the first and last letters and a rapid recognition of the general shape and content of the entire word. That"s why we typically read misspelled words with no trouble. Part of cognition that distinguishes us from other animals. Need it to have higher level thinking. Need frontal cortex for this organization of behaviour, language and problem solving. The frontal lobes are the seat of all wisdom (bailey, 1933).