Brain Parts (AP Psychology) Flashcards
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| 4924573875 | Frontal Lobe | "CEO of the brain" Controls: Personality, critical thinking/judgement, consciousness, and emotions. |  | 0 |
| 4924581784 | Parietal Lobe | Controls: Mathematic Reasoning, Info Processor, Spacial orientation and reasoning |  | 1 |
| 4924587678 | Temporal Lobe | Controls: Hearing, categorization of object, Mystical Experiences 'god' |  | 2 |
| 4924606977 | Occipital Lobe | Controls: Vision! |  | 3 |
| 4924632886 | Neo Cortex | Outside part of the brain, thinking/judgement. Considered the new brain |  | 4 |
| 4924640161 | Motor Cortex | A strip that controls movement of the face and limbs |  | 5 |
| 4924642018 | Sensory Cortex | A strip that registers and processes bodily sensations. Integrates all senses into one perception. |  | 6 |
| 4924672469 | Pons | Coordinates functions like arousal, staying awake, to dreaming, states of consciousness. |  | 7 |
| 4924678168 | Medulla | Underneath the Pons. Deals with automatic functions like: Breathing, heart rate, blinking, salivating, swallowing and vomiting. |  | 8 |
| 4924688231 | Reptillian Brain | The very basic part of the brain "Old Brain" |  | 9 |
| 4924695021 | 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. |  | 10 |
| 4924707729 | 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. |  | 11 |
| 4924722873 | Hippocampus | Emotional Powerhouse. Transfers memories from the short term to long term. Makes/stores maps of the physical spaces. Detects new objects. |  | 12 |
| 4924733891 | Amygdala | Attaches emotional significance to stimuli. Emotions are started here, usually anger/fear, fight or flight. |  | 13 |
| 4924741812 | Thalamus | 'Post office' Directs sensations, except smell, to the appropriate cortex. |  | 14 |
| 4924741813 | 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. |  | 15 |
| 4930150659 | Broca's Area | Controls Speech, frontal lobe. Remember Tom Brokaw. If your right handed likely on the left side. | 16 | |
| 4930205949 | Wernicke's Area | Controls language. Without it, you couldn't understand auditory language. Temporal lobe. | 17 | |
| 4930205950 | Pituitary Gland | Master gland of the Endocrine System. Controls the amount of growth hormone and testosterone/ Estrogen. Connected to Hypothalamus. | 18 | |
| 4930205951 | Pineal | Keeps track of Biological clock, sleep cycle, and seasonal clock(Seasonal mood change). | 19 | |
| 4930205952 | Basal Ganglia | Posture (similar to Cerebellum), Locomotion, motor coordination. | 20 | |
| 4930205953 | Corpus Callosum | The highway between brain hemispheres. Transfers information across the hemispheres. | 21 |