Psychology 2042A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Prefrontal Cortex, Grey Matter, Antisocial Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Jeff St.Pierre

Document Summary

Theories will not give you all answers: cannot define everything, need multiple theoretical foundations. Unidimensional model short in some way. Can"t separate individual from environment need both to see what is happening. See continuities and discontinuities: see persistent and gradual changes, also see abrupt changes late onset conduct problems late teens experiment with some drugs, doesn"t impact education or life. Early onset persist constantly; young aggressive child continues and progresses throughout life anti-social personality disorder continues => continuity. Autism child plays and babbles then suddenly loses language: sudden onset look for sudden cause look at vaccinations (no evidence supporting this as a cause) Organization: arranging info into structures called schemes. Sensorimotor touch, interact, bang things, use all senses to discover world. Formal operational transcend concrete and think about future; think abstractly. Look at development over time of the child. Have to learn to crawl, before you walk, etc. Early patterns lead to higher- order functions structure evolve over time.