Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lobotomy, Psychosurgery
6 Dec 2016
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Who/what is normal? (don juan or psychiatric institute) Cocaine blocks dopamine transporters leaves build up (high) and makes user more animated and talkative. Large amounts of dopamine can cause hallucinations. Medication is solution for excess amounts of dopamine causing hallucinations and altered behaviour. Perceptive created reality (different for different people) Tv/media in uences people"s actions (ex. school shootings) ** by age of 16 witness more than 13000 murders on tv. Good guys & bad guys all violent. Psychosurgery: brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage. Moniz (1935): radical prefrontal lobotomy has calming effect on violent emotional behaviour in chimps (disconnect prefrontal lobes and makes people less connected to their emotions become more docile but have lower intelligence and may die. Supervised about 100 prefrontal lobes (over next 20 years 40,000 in u. s. alone. Books to buy: psychology frontiers (edition 5) owl. uwo. ca (welcome tab)
