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Biological PSY wk 3 Flashcards

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What do the Sensory Neurones do?

and where is it located?

A

Send a message from the brain to the body, (Eg. Temp, pressure, pain)
Location : dorsal spine

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What do the Motor Neurones do?

and where is it located?

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Send messages from the brain to the body, (Eg. Actions, changes in organ function)
Location: Ventral Spine

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What do Interneurons do?

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Connect sensory and motor Neurones at the spinal level, allowing reflexive movement

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What does the Brain stem comprised of?

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mid-brain, pons, medulla and RAS

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what is the cerebellum also known as?

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The little brain

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What does the cerebellum do?

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gives people; balance, motor coordination, learning and motor skills

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what are cerebral Ventricles?

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cavities within the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid,

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What does cerebrospinal fluid do?

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Nourishes and protects the central nervous system

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What are the 2 main purposes of the Brain stem?

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1- Connects the brain and spinal cord 2- Regulates bodily functions

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what are the 4 key functions in the brain stem?

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1- pons
2-Medulla
3-Mid- brain
4-Reticular activating system (RAS)

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What does the pons do?

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connects cortext to cerebellum

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what does the medulla control?

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Respiration, heart rate and sleep/wake patterns

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what does the mid-brain control?

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Movement control, orienting to sensory stimuli

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what does the RAS control?

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continuousness an arousal

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if an individual was classified as brain dead, which of the four key functions would not be working?

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All.

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What is the largest most complex region of the brain?

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Forebrain

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What is the two main things the Forebrain is comprised of

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1 - cerebral cortext

2- subcortical structures

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What is the left and right cerebral hemispheres connected by, that allows the two hemispheres to share information

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corpus callosum

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what is the lymbic system?

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interconnects brain regions, involved in emotional processing, basic drives, control of the autonomic nervous system, learning & memory and smell.

(ALSO 1 OUT 2 KEY SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURES)

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what are the 4 key things that the lymbic system is made up of?

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Thalamus, hypothalamus, Amygdala, Hippocampus

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what does the thalamus do?

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Receives/transfers incoming sensory information to the cortext (relay station)

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what does the hypothalamus do?

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regulates autonomic nervous system and endocrine system

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what does the amygdala do?

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learning, recognising and responding to emotion (in particular fear)

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what does the hippocampus do?

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encoding of new long term memories, spatial memories

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What is the Basal Ganglia?

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it is 1 out of 2 subcortical structures, it is in control of movement

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If an individual was addicted to drugs, what area of the brain is activated?

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The basal Ganglia

27
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what are the 4 lobes of the cortext?

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1-frontal,
2-temporal,
3- parietal ,
4- occipital

28
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4 main functions within the frontal lobe

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1- pre frontal cortext
2- executive function
3- Broca’s area
4- motor cortext

29
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what is the pre frontal lobe function?

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Associates with personality, mood and memory

30
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What is the executive function?

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Decision making, problem solving, reasoning, self awareness and self control

31
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what is the functions of Broca’s area

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speech production, which is typically left hemisphere

32
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what is the functions of the motor cortext?

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programming and execution of movement

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If there was damage to the frontal lobe, what would happen?

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Executive function deficits. (Eg. loss in motivation, inability to plan, social inappropriateness, reduced flexibility within thinking)

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what is the parietal lobe responsible for?

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The processing of somatic sensations and perceptions.

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what is the main function of the parietal lobe?

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somatosensory cortext

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What does the somatosensory cortext do?

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Registers tactile sensations within the body (Eg, temp, pain, pressure)

37
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what would happen if there was damage to the parietal lobe?

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Left and right confusion, problems integration sensory information and visuo - spatial and constructional problems

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what is the temporal lobe responsible for?

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Processing auditory information (hearing)

39
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what 3 main functions used in the temporal lobe?

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1- Primary Auditory cortext,
2- auditory association cortext
3- Wernicke’s area

40
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what does the Primary Auditory cortext do?

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receives incoming sound, analyses frequency and tone

41
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What does the auditory association cortext do?

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applies meaning to sound

42
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What does Wernickes area do?

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language comprehension (typically left hemisphere)

43
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if you were to damage your temporal lobe, what would happen?

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auditory problems, impaired language and poor memory

44
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what is the occipital lobe responsible for?

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vision

45
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2 main functions of the occipital lobe?

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1- Primary visual cortext

2- visual association cortext

46
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What does the primary visual cortext do?

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receives visual information from the eyes

47
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what does the visual association cortext do?

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analyses visual data to form an image

48
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if there was damage to the occipital lobe, what would happen?

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You’d go blind, have trouble with your vision.

49
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what happens with split brain surgery?

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the brain cannot share info with both hemispheres

50
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what is an effect on split brain surgery?

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info in the RVF (right visual field) can be verbally described by left hemisphere

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