Brain Parts (AP Psychology) Flashcards

5254682758	Frontal Lobe	"CEO of the brain" Controls: Personality, critical thinking/judgement, consciousness, and emotions.	0
5254682759	Parietal Lobe	Controls: Mathematic Reasoning, Info Processor, Spacial orientation and reasoning	1
5254682760	Temporal Lobe	Controls: Hearing, categorization of object, Mystical Experiences 'god'	2
5254682761	Occipital Lobe	Controls: Vision!	3
5254682763	Motor Cortex	A strip that controls movement of the face and limbs	4
5254682764	Sensory Cortex	A strip that registers and processes bodily sensations. Integrates all senses into one perception.	5
5254682765	Pons	Coordinates functions like arousal, staying awake, to dreaming, states of consciousness.	6
5254682766	Medulla	Underneath the Pons. Deals with automatic functions like: Breathing, heart rate, blinking, salivating, swallowing and vomiting.	7
5254682768	Reticular Formation	This 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.	8
5254682769	Cerebellum	Known as "little brain" due to it's shape. Controls voluntary movements like: Balance, Posture, Coordination, motor movements, Memory of Kinesthetic Skills, muscle memory.	9
5254682770	Hippocampus	Emotional Powerhouse. Transfers memories from the short term to long term. Makes/stores maps of the physical spaces. Detects new objects.	10
5254682771	Amygdala	Attaches emotional significance to stimuli. Emotions are started here, usually anger/fear, fight or flight.	11
5254682772	Thalamus	'Post office' Directs sensations, except smell, to the appropriate cortex.	12
5254682773	Hypothalamus	Directly 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.	13
5254682774	Broca's Area	Controls Speech, frontal lobe. Remember Tom Brokaw. If your right handed likely on the left side.	14
5254682775	Wernicke's Area	Controls language. Without it, you couldn't understand auditory language. Temporal lobe.	15
5254682776	Pituitary Gland	Master gland of the Endocrine System. Controls the amount of growth hormone and testosterone/ Estrogen. Connected to Hypothalamus.	16
5254682779	Corpus Callosum	The highway between brain hemispheres. Transfers information across the hemispheres.	17
5254700324	Dual Processing	The brain's ability to work on 2 different levels simultaneously, conscious level (controlled) and unconscious level (automatic)	18