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Franz Gall

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Phrenology

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Pierre Flourens

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  • Functions of major sections of the brain
  • used extripation study parts of brain
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William James

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  • Functionalism: how mental processes help individuals adapt to their environment
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John Dewey

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Functionalism

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Paul Broca

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  • Studies people with legions in specific regions of brain
  • Brocas: speed production
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Hermann von Helmoltz

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  • speed of impulse
  • made psychology a science
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Sir Charles Sherrington

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Synapes

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Brain Organization

What parts of the brain are in the hindbrain?

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  • cerebellum
  • medulla oblongata
  • reticular formation
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Brain Organization:

What parts of the brain are in the midbrain?

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inferior and superior colliculi

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Brain Organization:

What parts of the brain are in the forebrain?

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  • thalamus
  • hypothalamus
  • basal ganglia
  • limbic system
  • cerebral cortex
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Forebrain

Function of Thalamus

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relay station for sensory information

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Forebrain

Function of hypothalamus

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  • homeostasis
  • 4 F’s: fighting, fleeing, feeding, fornication
  • integrates with endocrine system
  • hypothalamus –> hypophyseal portal –> anterior pituitary
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Forebrain

Function of Basal Ganglia

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  • smooth movements
  • postural activity
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Forebrain

Function of limbic system

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  • septal nuclei: pleasure and addiction
  • amygdala: fear and aggression
  • hippocampus: emotion and memory
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Forebrain (Cerebral Cortex)

Function of frontal lobe

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  • executive function
  • impulse control
  • speech
  • motor
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Forebrain (Cerebral Cortex)

Function of parietal lobe

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  • touch
  • pressure
  • temp
  • pain
  • spatial processing
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Forebrain (Cerebral Cortex)

Function of occipital lobe

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visual

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Forebrain (Cerebral Cortex)

Function of temporal lobe

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  • sound
  • speech perception
  • memory
  • emotion
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Forebrain

Function of left cerebral hemisphere

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  • analytic
  • language
  • logica
  • math
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Forebrain

Function of right cerebral hemisphere

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  • intuition
  • creativity
  • spatial processing
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Nervous System

sensory neuron pathway

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afferent, receptors –> spinal cord

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Nervous System

interneurons pathway

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  • between others neurons
  • mainly CNS
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Nervous System

reflex arcs pathway

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interneurons in spinal cord relay info to the source of stimuli while simultaneouslt routing it to the brain

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Nervous System

CNS pathway

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brain –> spinal cord

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Nervous system

PNS pathway

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nervous tissue and fibers outside CNS

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Nervous System

Somatic Nervous System

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voluntary

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Nervous System

Autonomic Nervous System

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Sympathetic = fight or flight
Parasympathetic = rest and digest

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Neurotransmitters

Acetylcholine

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  • move muscles (somatic NS)
  • also used by the parasympathetic and CNS
30
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Neurotransmitters

Dopamine

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  • maintains smooth movements
  • steady posture
  • reward signaling pathway
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Neurotransmitters

Endorphins & Enkephalines

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natural pain killers

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Neurotransmitters

Epinephrine & Norepinephrine

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  • maintain wakefulness and mediate fight or flight response
  • epinephrine tend to act as a hormone
  • norepinephrine tends to act as a neurotransmitter
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Neurotransmitters

GABA

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  • inhibitory neurotransmitters
  • act as brain stabilizers
  • glycine serves similar function
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Neurotransmitters

Glutamate

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acts as an excitatory neurotransmitter

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Neurotransmitters

Serotonin

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modulate:
* mood
* sleep
* eating
* dreaming

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Hormones

Cortisol

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stress hormone released by the adrenal cortex

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Hormones

tesosterone & estrogen

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  • mediate libido
  • testerone increases aggressive behavior
  • both are produced in gonads, released by adrenal cortex
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Hormones

epinephrine & norepinephrine

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  • released by adrenal medulla
  • cause physiological changes associated with the sympathetic nervouse system
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Development

The nervous system develpes through [–], in which the [–] stimulates overlying [–] to fold over, creating a [–] topped with [–]

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The nervous system develpes through neurulation, in which the notochord stimulates overlying ectoderm to fold over, creating a neural tube topped with neural crest cells

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Development

Neural Tube

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becomes the CNS

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Development

Neural Crest Cells

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spread out throughout the body, differentiating into many different tissues

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Development

Primitive Reflexes

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exist in infants and should disappear with age

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Development

Rooting Reflex

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turns head toward stimulus

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Development

Moro Reflex

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extend arms, response to falling sensation

45
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Developement

Babinski Reflex

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big toe is extended and other toes fan out in response to brushing on sole of foot

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Development

Grasping Reflex

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Grabs anything put into hands

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Development

What are the development milestones?

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  • gross and fine motor abilities progress head to toe and core to periphery
  • social skills shift from parent-oriented to other-oriented
  • language and skills become increasingly complex
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binocular depth cues

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retinal disparity = each of our eyes recieves slightly different information about an object to construct a perception of the object’s location in 3D space

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monocular depth cues

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  • retinal height of an object
  • when there is something occluding the object
  • how textured an object appears

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