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9858496399temporal lobehearing0
9858496400frontal lobecritical thinking1
9858496401occipital lobevisual processing2
9858496402parietal lobespatial reasoning3
9858496403sensory stripSense and touch4
9858496404motor stripmuscle movement, voluntary movement5
9858496405left brainlanguage and logic6
9858496406right braincreative and spatial7
9858496407PreconventionalMorality is based on outside forces8
9858496408conventional moralityWhat others expect9
9858496409Postconventionalguided by internal values10
9858496410Brain stemBasic life11
9858496411limbic systememotion and memory12
9858496412HypothalamusRegulates body temperature13
9858496413pituitary glandgrowth hormone14
9858496414AmygdalaFear and aggression15
9858496415MedulaControls heartbeat and breathing16
9858496416Pons functionManagement of sleep, arousal, and facial expressions. (4)17
9858496417recticular formationAlertness18
9858496418ThalamusRelay station19
9858496419NeuronsInterpret info20
9858496420EEG (electroencephalogram)Electrical waves of activity in brain21
9858496421MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)uses magnetic fields for images of soft tissue22
9858496422PET scanStudy of Brain w out surgery23
9858496423CAT scanShows fluid filled cavities of brain24
9858496424All or none conceptMust have enough transmitters for depolarization25
9858496425DepolarizationState in which the polarity of the neuron is reversed as sodium ions rush into the neuron.26
9858496426AcetylcholineEnables muscle action, learning, and memory, Alzheimer's27
9858496427NorepinephrineHelps control alertness and arousal28
9858496428DopamineInfluences movement, learning, attention, and emotion , schizophrenia29
9858496429PancreasBlood ,sugar30
9858496430thyroid glandaffects metabolism31
9858496431basal gangliastructures in the forebrain that help to control movement, cognition, procedural learning , emotion32
9858496432PerceptionA person's cognitive (mental) interpretation of events.33
9858496433narcelopsyuncontrollable sleep attacks; fall straight into REM34
9858496434insomniainability to sleep35
9858496435sleep apneaa disorder characterized by cessation of breathing during sleep36
9858496436implicit memoryMemories we don't deliberately remember or reflect on consciously37
9858496437explicit memorymemory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare"38
9858496438AlgorithmsStep by step39
9858496439HeuristicSolve problems quicker40
9858496440availability heuristicHow avaible info is41
9858496441Stanford BinetIQ test help kinds academically42
9858496442introverta shy person43
9858496443avoidance avoidance conflictwhen you must choose between two unattractive outcomes44
9858496444HorneyLove and security45
9858496445Adlerinferiority complex46
9858496446anxiety disorderPanic Phonic Ocd47
9858496447somatoform disordersconversion disorder, hypochondriasis48
9858496448dissociative disordersIdentity memory disturbance Amnesia Figure49
9858496449SchizophreniaDisordered thinking Canonic - thought disorders , hallucination50
9858496450Anitosocial personalityCriminal behavior51
9858496451negatively skeweda distribution that trails off to the left52
9858496452histrionicoverly dramatic53

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