PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Spinal Cord, Ct Scan, Brainstem
19 Mar 2017
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Skinner: you have no power, it"s all about the environment you are born into. New school of thought humanism: led by maslow and carl rodgers. James mark baldwin: brenda milner neuropsychology shit, donald hebb - Cognition mental abilities, mental imagery, problem solving, language development. Biological perspective behaviour explained by physiological processes. If you manipulate very speciic area of the brain you can see that speciic areas are for fear etc. Right side of brain is for left side motorability and vice versa. Central premise: natural selection occurs for behavioural as well as physical characteristics. Bennelheim researching autism (bad mothering caused autism) Chapter 3 (biology and genetics) (neuron to neuron), axon. Information sent from the presynaptic neuron, received from postsynaptic neuron: neural networks, table 3. 1 common neurotransmitters and some of their funtions*** As an antagonist: para responsible for conserving energy, pupils co (opposite of dilate), decreased breathing, sympathetic pupils dilate, increased breathing, somatic- when you hear/see/feel something this is why.
