PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lobotomy, Facilitated Communication, Cognitive Neuroscience
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Cognitive neuroscience relatively new field of psychology that examines the relations between brain functioning and thinking. School of psychology that focuses on internal psychological processes of which we"re unaware. Discipline that applies darwin"s theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior. Research examining how we use basic research to solve real-world problems. Surgical procedure that severs (cuts) fibers connecting the frontal lobes of the brain from the underlying thalamus. An effective treatment of schizophrenia (and other severe mental disorders) Surgeons of prefrontal lobotomy did not use ________ research, but used ____________ research. Slow and reflexive, can override system 1, problem-solving mode, complicated concepts. Mental shortcut or rule of thumb that helps us streamline our thinking and make sense of our world. Watching behavior in real-world settings without trying to manipulate the situation. Extent to which we can generalize findings to real-world settings. Extent to which we can draw cause-and-effect inferences from a study.
