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Brain
The brain
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/02/2013

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lower layers
Definition
direct basic functions (breathing, balance)
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top layer
Definition
forebrain for "thinking"
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* Hypothalamus
Definition
controls biological needs and drives (survival)
ex: hunger, thirst, temperature, etc.
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limbic system
Definition
region of brain that regulates emotional behavior, basic motivational urges and memory as well as many physiological functions
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amygdala
Definition
emotion in (pleasure)
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hippocampus
Definition
explicit memory
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Cerebral cortex
Definition
* complex thinking
* consciousness
* association areas
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corpus callosum
Definition
helps connects the sides of the brain
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left hemisphere
Definition
* logic and language skills
* controls right side of body
* right visual field
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right hemisphere
Definition
spatial skills, music
left side of body
left visual field
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four hemispheres
Definition
frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal
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frontal
Definition
- reason and association, motor cortex, action and personality
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parietal
Definition
responsible for touch pain and temperature, has sensory strip
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occipital
Definition
primary visual cortex (back of brain)
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temporal (prefrontal cortex)
Definition
hearing, contains auditory cortex
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broca's area
Definition
production of speech
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Wernicke
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comprehension/meaning of speech
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Afferent function
Definition
information in approaching the brain (from the sense) also approaches the cell body (dendrites)
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Efferent function
Definition
* exit the brain (to the muscles)
* Exit the cell body (terminals)
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