PSY 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lobotomy, Calm Air, Lanthanum
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Primary quill drives direct our behavior toward the ful llment of physiological needs (thirst, thirstiness. Social need are learned through experience and interaction with others. Conversion= person suffers a departure of motor or sensory functioning in some part of the body, the loss has no physical causes but solves some psychological problem . "- those with conversion upset exhibit a calm air and assuredness indifference to their symptoms. Prefrontal lobotomy is no longer done -drastic, irreversible, dif cult to predict -electrodes are used to destroy the cingulum (nerves connecting the cortex to the emotion substance ) sticking with a strategy despite the existence of a more ef cient approach. Children are highly irritable and have frequent outbreaks of temper that interfere with social and academic functioning genetics - siblings have elevated risk brain growth - slower than average rates of growth in parts of brainpower.
