PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Problem Gambling, Frontal Lobe, Behavioral Neuroscience

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

All mental experiences and behavioral acts are products of the nervous system behavioral neuroscience: research specialty that atempts to explain behavior in terms of processes occurring within the nervous system. Some behavioral neuroscienists study individual neurons (nerve cells) or small groups of neurons. To determine how their characterisics, contribute to paricular psychological processes, such as learning. Others map out and study larger brain regions and pathways that are directly involved in paricular categories of behavior or experience. In one of the few studies to invesigate neurological correlates of jealousy in humans. Male college students induced to feel jealous showed greater acivaion in the let frontal cortex of their brains toward their sexually desired partner acivaion of the let frontal cortex. Is associated with approach-moivaion, typically associated with pleasurable aciviies right frontal cortex. Is associated with withdrawal-moivaion, typically corresponding to avoidance of negaive simuli.