AS Psychology - The Limbic System
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2. What did Downer (1961) do/find?
- He cut the optic nerve and removed the amygdala in monkeys and found if the monkeys saw humans and didnt have an amygdala, they were much calmer.
- He cut the optic nerve and removed the amygdala in dogs and found if the dogs saw humans and didnt have an amygdala, they were much calmer.
- He showed that the electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus leads to aggression
- He found a negative correlation between the volume of the amygdala and self-reported lifetime aggression in humans
3. What did Andy and Velamati (1978) do/find?
- Simulated the limbic system in dogs and recorded how they reacted to other dogs
- Stimulated the hypothalamus in cats and found it caused aggressive seizures
- Aggravated rats, cut out their brains and stained them and found more neurons in the limbic system
- Stimulated the amygdala in rats and found more aggressive behaviour
4. What is the role of the hippocampus?
- Turning STM into LTM
- Affects the reward pathway giving pleasure to the brain
- Regulating dopamine production
- Identifying threat
5. What did Hermanns et al (1993) do/find?
- He showed that the electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus leads to aggression
- He found that humans tend to be more aggressive if they have pre-frontal damage to their brains
- He found a negative correlation between the volume of the amygdala and self-reported lifetime aggression in humans
- He cut the optic nerve and removed the amygdala in monkeys and found if the monkeys saw humans and didnt have an amygdala, they were much calmer.
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