PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning, Countertransference, All The Same
11 Dec 2016
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Paradigm: conceptual framework/approach scientist take: eg. Neuropsychologists look at brain (abnormal behaviour due to abnormal brain) Maybe abnormal behaviour due to childhood experience not brain. Behaviour genetics: genotypes (dna) vs phenotypes (expression/observable) Phenotype related to both genes and environment: family method proband (has disorder), study the prevalence in the family. More schizophrenia in someone who has family with it. Looks only at genetics if they are reared apart. Concordance (look this up: help learn the cause (genetically) but not always the cause. Biochemistry neurotransmitters: neurotransmission some mental disorders related to neurotransmitter. Brain structure and function: what happens on and within the brain, cortical frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe. Frontal lobes higher level thinking, personality, executive function. Occipital lobe vision: subcortical inner brain, motor and basic necessities. Abnormal psychology lecture 2: use mri scans to see brain structure abnormalities.
