CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Identity Crisis, Biology Of Depression, Inferiority Complex
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Brain lesions and tumours: charles whitman. Head injuries: particularly in frontal and prefrontal cortex (executive functioning, damage to temporal lobe increased chances of auditory hallucinations (hearing voices, noises, etc. ) Chemical imbalance is not well understood and is treated with use of medications: ssris: prozac, celexa, paxil, etc, maois: nardil, marplan, etc, antipsychotics: risperidone, olanzapine, etc. Too much arousal causes anxiety, too little results in boredom. Risk-averse: some individuals tend to avoid risk, even with the possibility of pay off. Risk-seeking: some individuals tend to seek pay off, even with greater risk. Monozygotic (identical) twins are more similar in self-reported criminality and deviance than dizygotic (fraternal) twins. Children are more similar in criminality to biological parents than to adoptive parents. The debate between nature and nurture is a contrived one. Important to look at how environmental factors influence biological ones. Psychoanalytic theory: human behaviour is governed by unconscious processes, and we develop in stages throughout our childhood and early adulthood.
