Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontal Lobe, Psychosurgery, Lobotomy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

When the human body experiences something posiive (eat/drink/sex) the nerve cells create dopamine and it lows through the nerves. Cocaine causes in increase in the amount of dopamine, and this can cause hallucinaions. The mind is not material like the brain. One can scan someone"s mind by asking one to interpret their senses. Someone can perceive something diferently than someone else, and not be considered delusional. Our behaviour is based on our leaning. We learn through many people and things (ie tv) Much violence is due to the inluence of tv. By the age of 18, the average person would have spent more ime watching tv than in school. An act of violence occurs approximately once ever 16 minutes, and murder ever 31 minutes. Pain and sufering is rarely shown, aka lack of consequences of violence. People oten act like characters they see. Brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage.