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Brain Facts-UWL
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/10/2013

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Frontal Lobe controls what?
Definition
Judgement, Planning, and processing of new memories
Term
Parietal Lobe does what?
Definition
receives input from the body and registers body position.
Term
Plasticity
Definition
The brain's ability to modify itself after damage
Term
Brainstem
Definition
The oldest and innermost region of the brain, located at the swelling after slightly entering the skull
Term
Medulla
Definition
The slight swelling of the spinal cord when entering the skull
Term
The Medulla controls?
Definition
Heartbeat and Breathing
Term
Pons does what?
Definition
controls all movements
Term
Where is the thalmus?
Definition
Part of the brain at the top of the brainstem
Term
The reticular formation does what?
Definition
It takes some signals going to the thalmus and takes it to other parts of the brain. responsible for alertness and "reward centers"
Term
Freudian Psycology
Definition
the way that our unconcious thought processes and how our childhood experiences effect later character
Term
Carls Rodgers and Abraham Maslow are:
Definition
Humanistic Psycologists
Term
Structuralism
Definition
study of the brains structure
Term
Functionalism
Definition
Study of how the brain functions
Term
psycology is defined as
Definition
the science of behavior and mental processes
Term
case study
Definition
examining an individual to provide findings for a large group of people
Term
Empiricism
Definition
the belief that knowledge comes
from experience.
Term
Rationalism
Definition
the belief that knowledge comes
from reasoning.
Term
Socrates and Plato believed:
Definition
the mind and body are seperate, we are born with innate ideas, when we die our mind "spirit" lives on
Term
Aristotle believed:
Definition
knowledge grows from empiricism
Term
empiricism
Definition
knowledge grows from experience
Term
Rene Descartes believed
Definition
in Plato and Socrates, Proposed first model of
communication between mind
and body
Term
John Locke
Definition
believed that we are a blank slate at birth
Term
Wilhelm Wundt founded
Definition
cognitive psycology
Term
William James
Definition
founder of American psycology
Term
Temporal Lobe controls what?
Definition
auditory functions, recognition,
Term
Occipital Lobe controls what?
Definition
Vision
Term
Corpus Collosum does what?
Definition
Connects the two hemispheres of the brain and carries messages between them
Term
Alcohol is a:
Definition
Depressant
Term
barbiturates are:
Definition
depressants
Term
opiates are:
Definition
depressants
Term
A depressant is:
Definition
a substance that calm neural activity and slow body functions
Term
a stimulant is:
Definition
a substance that excites neural activity and speeds up body functions
Term
nicotine is a:
Definition
stimulant
Term
caffeine is a:
Definition
stimulant
Term
amphetamines (meth and cocaine and ectasy) are:
Definition
stimulants
Term
Hallucinogens do what?
Definition
distort perceptions and evoke sensory images
Term
sound
Definition
pressure changes in a medium capable
of being detected by auditory organs.
Term
Tympanic membrane (eardrum):
Definition
vibrates in
response to pressure changes in the
atmosphere
Term
Ossicles:
Definition
three bones that transmit vibrations
from the tympanic membrane to the oval
window.
Term
Cochlea:
Definition
fluid-filled, bony, snail-shell shaped
chamber containing the smaller structures of
the inner ear.
Term
Hair cells:
Definition
receptors for sound attached to
the auditory nerve.
Term
Semi-circular canals:
Definition
endolymph filled tubes
containing hair cells that bend as endolymph
flows by.
Term
Limbic system consists of what?
Definition
amygdala, thalmus, hypothalmus, and the hippocampus
Term
Otolith organs:
Definition
fluid-filled sacks containing
hair cells that are stimulated by calcium rocks
(otoliths) as the head moves
Term
vestibular system controls what?
Definition
balance
Term
Motion parallax:
Definition
As we are moving, objects that are closer move faster and objects that are farther move slower
Term
Hypothalmus
Definition
motivational systems and some more "reward centers"
Term
Hippocampus does what?
Definition
new memory formation
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