Psychology AP Module 13 Flashcards

14955248493	lateralization	the development of specialized functioning in each hemisphere of the brain or in the side of the body which each controls.	0
14955248494	left hemisphere	Accidents, strokes, and tumors in which hemisphere can impair reading, writing, speaking, arithmetic reasoning, and understanding?	1
14955248495	corpus callosum	The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.	2
14955248496	split brain	A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them.	3
14955248497	Vogel and Bogen	Who speculated that major epileptic seizures were caused by an amplification of abnormal brain activity bouncing back and force, so they severed the corpus callosum to stop the seizures?	4
14955248498	to your right hemisphere	Where does information from the left half of your field of vision go?	5
14955248499	to your left hemisphere	Where does information from the right half of your visual field go?	6
14955248500	Sperry and Gazzaniga	Who could send information to a patient's left or right hemisphere, quizzing each hemisphere individually?	7
14955248501	Gazzaniga	Who held an experiment in which he asked people to stare at a dot as he flashed "HE-ART" on a screen?	8
14955248502	in their left visual field which transmits to the right hemisphere	Where did the HE appear?	9
14955248503	in their right visual field which transmits to the left hemisphere	Where did the ART appear?	10
14955248504	left hemisphere	When the "two minds" are at odds, which hemisphere does mental gymnastics to rationalize reactions it does not understand?	11
14955248505	perceptual; right	When a person performs a ______ task, brain waves, bloodflow, and glucose consumption reveal increases in the ____ hemisphere	12
14955248506	left	When a person speaks or calculates, activity increases in the ________ hemisphere	13
14955248507	the patient's right arm falls limp and the patient will be speechless until the drug wears off	What happens if a sedative is administered to the left hemisphere?	14
14955248508	the left arm will fall limp	What happens if a sedative is administered to the right hemisphere?	15
14955248509	true	True or False: Just as hearing people usually use the left hemisphere to process speech, deaf people use the left hemisphere to process sign language	16
14955248510	left hemisphere	Which hemisphere is adept to making quick, literal interpretations of language?	17
14955248511	right hemisphere	Which hemisphere excels in making inferences?	18
14955248512	right hemisphere	Which hemisphere helps us modulate our speech?	19
14955248513	right hemisphere	Which hemisphere helps orchestrate our sense of self?	20
14955248514	consciousness	our awareness of ourselves and our environment	21
14955248515	consciousness	What helps us act in our long-term interests rather than merely seeking short-term pleasure and avoiding pain?	22
14955248516	consciousness	What promotes our survival by anticipating how we seem to others and helping us read their minds?	23
14955248517	cognitive neuroscience	The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language	24
14955248518	dual processing	The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks	25
14955248519	Milner and Goodale	Who dealt with a woman, who overcome by carbon monoxide, was unable to recognize and discriminate objects visually?	26
14955248520	a visual perception track	What enables us "to think about the world"-to recognize and to plan future actions?	27
14955248521	visual action track	What guides our moment to moment movements?	28
14955248522	hollow face illusion	What showed that people will mistakenly perceive the inside of a mask as a protruding face?	29
14955248523	sequential processing	What processing is skilled at solving new problems?	30
14955248524	parallel	What processing is unconscious?	31
14955248525	sequential	Which processing is conscious?	32