PSY 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Model, Acculturation, Attribution Bias
21 Nov 2016
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Chapter 3, biopsychosocial models: transactional approaches to understanding. People who suffer brain damage show problems in psychological functioning that are specific to that brain area. Cerebral cortex: what makes us human, responsible for higher order functions (decisions, memory, problem solving, creativity, language), differentiation and pruning of neurons within stages, growth around 4-5 and. Limbic system: emotions, negative and positive, subsystems include amygdala (emotion regulation and memory, involved in 85% of disorders), hippocampus (memory, emotionally salient > remember) and hypothalamus (stress, regulation of eating/drinking/sex, sensations) Hpa axis is involved in the endocrine system and our body"s response to stress, arouses body to cope. Hypothalamus senses stress, produces hormones which bind to pituitary gland, which produces acth which effects the adrenal glands which produce cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrin which increases adrenalin, leading to a fight or flight response. Neurotransmitters are messengers that carry impulses from one neuron to the other in the brain and ns.
