Psychology 1000 Lecture : Lecture 1

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

Document Summary

Scan pages 2-19 in the textbook (introduction and history) Psychology: the brain: made of neurons: cells that carry electrical signals-get the brain/mind to work neurotransmitters: get neurons to work effects of cocaine: prevents recycling of dopamine back into nerve cells. By the time youre 18 you ve watched more tv than you ve been in school. You can see violence every 16 min on tv and a murder every 31 min. Clinical issues: treatments have evolved over time. A chair with restraining arms, legs, eyes. Psychosurgery: brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage. Moniz (1935): radical prefrontal lobotomy has calming effect on violent emotional behavior in chimpanzees. Over the next 20 years there were 40 000 in the u. s. alone. Simple procedure, often called ice-pick performed on outpatient basis. Pre fronal lobes control emotion, therefore separate from the rest of brain. Patients become more docile, apathetic, severe blunting of emotion, intellectual problems, and can be terminal.