PSY290H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parietal Lobe, Human Genome Project, Phenylalanine Hydroxylase
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Physiological psychology: biopsychology, psychobiology, behavioural neuroscience, scienti c study of the biology of behaviour. Physiological psychology is an integrative discipline: neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, neuropathology, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology. Experiments: between-subjects design, within-subjects design, independent variable, dependent variable, if an experiment is done correctly, any differences in the dv between conditions must have been caused by the iv. Jos delgado: activated stimulator inserted into brain of bull. Figure 1. 7 the right and left prefrontal lobes, whose connections to the rest of the brain are disrupted by prefrontal lobotomy. Figure 1. 8 the prefrontal lobotomy procedure developed by moniz and lima. Prefrontal lobotomy: walter freeman popularized transorbital lobotomy in the us in the 1940s. Figure 1. 9 the transorbital procedure for performing prefrontal lobotomy. Behaviour: is the cause of something physiological or psychological, ren descartes (1596-1650, cartesian dualism, (1) physical matter, can be studied scienti cally, (2) human mind (soul, self, spirit) controls human behaviour but has no physical substance.
