Primary Prevention Of Psychopathology

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Reversible disturbances of function following cortical insult

Historically, there have been two main approaches to the analysis of cerebral function. From one point of view, it has been maintained that different psychological attributes or functions reside in different parts of the cerebrum. In contrast to this, the position has been held by many that there is no such localization of function. It is now quite clear that many functions can be localized, in the sense that a loss of a limited region of cerebral tissue results in a qualitatively limited, or restricted, loss of function, and a loss of much cerebral tissue elsewhere in the brain does not produce the same loss

The effects of positive and negative incentives in serial learning : fixation and variability of response as a result of symbolic reward and symbolic punishment.

The questions to be answered by an examination of the results of these experiments are as follows: (1) Will an empirical baseline of repetition (as determined by control group results) be greater than that expected by chance? (2) Will the informative word "right" (symbolic reward) increase the number of repetitions to the item to which it is applied above an empirical baseline? (3) Will the informative word "wrong" (symbolic punishment) reduce the number of repetitions to the item to which it is applied below an empirical baseline