Psychology 1000 Lecture : Psych 1000 Lecture Notes
16 Nov 2011
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Psychology: the brain, the mind, learning, clinical issues (cid:149) Psychosurgery: brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage. Radical prefrontal lobotomy has calming effect on violet emotional behaviour in chimps. Over next 20 years, 40 000 in us alone were performed. Prefrontal lobes control emotion and therefore separate from the rest of the brain (cid:149) (cid:149) Patients because docile, apathetic, and experiences severe blunting of emotion, intellectual problems, and was sometimes terminal (finish chapter 1) What is psychology: what is psychology, explanations of behaviour, schools of psychology, pioneers. Explanations of behaviour (example uses aggression) (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) All of these levels can influence the others. They are related and are not mutually exclusive. No one level is better than the other or correct, they all simply explain a phenomenon in a different way. (cid:149) Cultural factors: societal norms, external, value systems, how culture looks at and reacts to a specific behaviour (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149) (cid:149)
