PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoactive Drug, Prefrontal Cortex, Personal Development
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Sigmund freud"s work: behavioral: environmental influences on observable behavior, humanistic: personal growth, freedom. How we feel and think: cognitive: conscious thoughts, beliefs, expectations, biological: body structures and processes, evolutionary: adaptation, natural selection. The prefrontal cortex of her adolescent brain is not fully developed yet. She may have been under the influence of a psychoactive substance. She thought it would impress her new friends. Her new friends encouraged her to do it. She had done it before and didn"t get hurt. Cognitive: they think its normal and everyone does it and it would be easier to live that way and it would make them happier. People have negative beliefs of people who stay single. Behavioral: the way society views marriage as positive and provides incentives to get married. Humanistic: unique human experience of two people seeking personal growth and fulfillment. Biological: humans produce oxytocin, a hormone that acts in the brain and is associated with mating.
