PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sympathetic Nervous System, Electrodermal Activity, Phineas Gage

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Jessica Barber

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Phineas gage rod went through the left side of his brain. He seems pretty much fine afterwards, he seems remarkably okay cognitively and such: his personality is somewhat changed however. Before he was mild mannered, now he is impulsive, short tempered, reactive, aggressive at time. This is the part of the brain that deals with executive control: impulse control, delayed gratification, higher level reasoning outcomes : early link between physiology and psychology. Physiological systems: nervous system brain and nerves, cardiac system heart, arteries and veins, musculoskeletal system muscles and bones that control behavior. One drawback is that the person has to be literally wired to recording machine. Personality psychologists have been especially interested in whether different regions of the brain show different activity for different people (introverts vs. extroverts: eeg- electromagnetic indication of arousal and cognitive outlook . fmri- functional magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, people are aware that you are looking for something.