Psychology 1000 Lecture 4: PSYCH first year chapter 4 continued notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Blind man who turned blind later, synesthetic can still see the colours when hearing certain words motivation and reward: Olds and miller (1953) mistakenly placed an electrode into a rate hypothalamus. Started repaeating the previous activity in hopes of receiving the stimulation again. Seemed as if the rat was being rewarded for the behaviour. Further testing showed that some rats would press a lever thousands of times an hour in order to recieve the electrical stimulation. Olds and milner found was somethign they called the pleasure centre of the brain. nucleus acumbens psychopaths. As therapists they use their best guess never actually know if they are ready. There frontal lobe may be messed up , because frontal lobe is what deals with judgement, and social cues. Hes completely fine but a psychopath- james fallon partially development in case of causation. Failure of development in certain areas in the brain.