PSYC 100 Chapter 6: PSYCH 100 week 6 online lesson

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Katherine Fretz

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Topic 1: the central nervous system: describe how the structure of the central nervous system in uences behaviour. Rst and most powerful evidence for localization of function involves aphasia (loss of ability to speak: two kinds associated with damage in different areas of the brain. Broca"s aphasia: generally associated with damage to the left interior frontal gyrus > language disorder resulting from brain damage. !1: mid 19th c french physician had patient who could not speak but could understand language > primary dif culty is producing language rather than understanding language. Saturday, october 8, 2016: predicting how changing an independent variable will affect a dependent variable dependent variable should be connected to the operational de nition of the behaviour you are trying to evaluate. If we study three patients who have damage to a certain part of the brain, we are looking at what effect damage to that part of the brain has on behaviour.