Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lobotomy, Psychosurgery, Behaviorism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

The mind: can"t measure or scan the mind the way you can with a brain, mind creates a reality that doesn"t exist. The mind creates reality that is not there. Learn violence because violence is so prevalent in media (i. e. murder every half hour, 94% of cartoons are show violence, pain and suffering is rarely shown) Psychosurgery: brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage. Radical prefrontal lobotomy has calming effect on violent emotional behavior in chimps. Over the next 20 years- 40 000 in u. s alone. Pre-frontol lobes control emotion and therefore separate from rest of brain. Patients become docile, apathetic, no emotion with iq problems and can be terminal. Biological factors: how we are wired and put together (i. e. looking at aggression and brain development and how individuals think) Individual and psychological factors: what they learned, how they grew up, how they interpret things.