Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Myelin, Karl Lashley, Developmental Psychology

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

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Pre-frontal lobe controls emotion: patients of this surgery become more docile, apathetic, severe blunting of emission, intellectual problems. This surgery can be terminal: clinical issues is just one part of psychology, explanation of behaviour: 3 primary ways, biological factors (e. g. neural, hormonal) Biology of the human system and whats going on. Different chemicals and neuro structures (to explain behaviour: individual/psychological factors (e. g. learning, cognitive processes) The persons past learning history. (witnessing violence as a child is the main way. How do you interpret this: cultural/environmental factors (e. g. value system) Depending where the individual growing up. (cultural in uences): all of these factors in uence each other, schools of psychology, functionalism. Focuses on the function or signi cance of behaviour. Ethology - animal behaviour in its natural environment: psychodynamic. Rewards/punishment (consequences to actions related to how you learn things) How the environment shapes who you are and what you are doing. Focuses on neural and chemical basis of brain.