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Brain Parts (AP Psychology) Flashcards

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4924573875Frontal Lobe"CEO of the brain" Controls: Personality, critical thinking/judgement, consciousness, and emotions.0
4924581784Parietal LobeControls: Mathematic Reasoning, Info Processor, Spacial orientation and reasoning1
4924587678Temporal LobeControls: Hearing, categorization of object, Mystical Experiences 'god'2
4924606977Occipital LobeControls: Vision!3
4924632886Neo CortexOutside part of the brain, thinking/judgement. Considered the new brain4
4924640161Motor CortexA strip that controls movement of the face and limbs5
4924642018Sensory CortexA strip that registers and processes bodily sensations. Integrates all senses into one perception.6
4924672469PonsCoordinates functions like arousal, staying awake, to dreaming, states of consciousness.7
4924678168MedullaUnderneath the Pons. Deals with automatic functions like: Breathing, heart rate, blinking, salivating, swallowing and vomiting.8
4924688231Reptillian BrainThe very basic part of the brain "Old Brain"9
4924695021Reticular FormationThis region controls: Arousal/sleep (consciousness), filters all incoming sensory information to determine what's important. Either passes info on from the lower centers to the upper brain or blocks it.10
4924707729CerebellumKnown as "little brain" due to it's shape. Controls voluntary movements like: Balance, Posture, Coordination, motor movements, Memory of Kinesthetic Skills, muscle memory.11
4924722873HippocampusEmotional Powerhouse. Transfers memories from the short term to long term. Makes/stores maps of the physical spaces. Detects new objects.12
4924733891AmygdalaAttaches emotional significance to stimuli. Emotions are started here, usually anger/fear, fight or flight.13
4924741812Thalamus'Post office' Directs sensations, except smell, to the appropriate cortex.14
4924741813HypothalamusDirectly below the thalamus Regulates mediative behavior, sex, hunger, thirst, aggression, sleep, body temp (homeostasis things). The 4 F's Feeding, Fleeing, Freezing, and F*cking.15
4930150659Broca's AreaControls Speech, frontal lobe. Remember Tom Brokaw. If your right handed likely on the left side.16
4930205949Wernicke's AreaControls language. Without it, you couldn't understand auditory language. Temporal lobe.17
4930205950Pituitary GlandMaster gland of the Endocrine System. Controls the amount of growth hormone and testosterone/ Estrogen. Connected to Hypothalamus.18
4930205951PinealKeeps track of Biological clock, sleep cycle, and seasonal clock(Seasonal mood change).19
4930205952Basal GangliaPosture (similar to Cerebellum), Locomotion, motor coordination.20
4930205953Corpus CallosumThe highway between brain hemispheres. Transfers information across the hemispheres.21

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