AP Psych Brain Vocab Flashcards

Functions of the major parts of brain

238659646	Brainstem	Relays messages between spinal cord and the brain, from brainstem cranial nerves to cerebrum. Helps control heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure. Involved with hearing, taste, and other senses	0
238659647	Cerebellum	Process center involved with coordination of muscular movements, balance, precision, timing, body positions. Processes sensory information used by the motor systems	1
238659648	Cerebral Cortex	Involved with most conscious activities for living	2
238659649	Frontal lobe	involved with motor control of voluntary movements, reasoning, & control of emotional expressions and moral behavior	3
238659650	Parietal lobe	Involved with general senses, taste	4
238659651	Temporal lobe	Involved with hearing, equilibrium, emotion, and memory	5
238659652	Occipital lobe	Organized for vision and associated forms of expression	6
238659653	Limbic lobe	Involved with emotions, behavioral expressions, recent memory, and smell	7
238659654	Cerebrum	Controls voluntary movements, coordinates mental activity, center for all conscious living	8
238659655	Corpus callosum	Connects cerebral hemispheres, relays sensory information between them. Allows left and right hemispheres to share information, and unifies attention	9
238659656	Hypothalamus	Highest integrating center for autonomic nervous system. Controls most of the endocrine system through its relationship with the pituitary gland. 5Fs	10
238659657	Medulla Oblongata	Controls involuntary body functions not under conscious control - heartbeat, respiration, blood pressure, etc.	11
238659658	Midbrain	involved with visual reflexes, movement of eyes, focusing of lens, dilation of pupils	12
238659659	Pons	Controls respiratory functions and regulates dreaming	13
238659660	Reticular Formation	Regulation of arousal, and involves respiratory and cardiovascular centers	14
238659661	Thalamus	Sensory switchboard; Intermediate relay structure and processing center for all sensory information except smell.	15