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Limbic System

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Regulates emotion, memory, motivation.

Thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus

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Thalamus

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Collects/ integrates sensory info to send to other brain areas

The “gateway”

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Hypothalamus

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Master regulatory structure

Basic biological needs- FOUR Fs

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Hippocampus

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Creation of new memories VIA new neuron connections

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Amygdala

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Associates things in world with certain emotional responses.

MAIN RAGE AND FEAR

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Spinal chord

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Brain body communication

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Hind Brain

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Basic survival functions

Medulla, Pons, and Cerebellum

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Mid Brain

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Movement

Contains neurons that release dopamine
Contains reticular formation

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Reticular Formation

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Reflexes, breathing, pain, sleep, arousal, communication WITHIN brain

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Medulla

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Heartbeat, breathing, reflexes

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Pons

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Sleep and arousal

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Cerebellum

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Voluntary movement, coordination, non-verbal learning and memory

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Basal Ganglia

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Planning/producing/controlling movement, determines course of action once SENSORY info passes through primary (cortex?) and sends to motor cortex

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Corpus callosum

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Connects left and right hemispheres

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FOUR LOBES?

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Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal

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Parietal Lobe

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Primary sensory cortex

-receives sensory info

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Occipital Lobe

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Primary Visual Cortex

-receives visual info

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Temporal Lobe

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Primary auditory cortex (hearing)
Autobiographical memory
Wernickes Area- Processes speech and language
Fusiform face area- facial recognition

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Wernickes area

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Processes speech and language

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Fusiform face area

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Facial recognition

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Frontal Lobe

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Executive functions, movement and planning (primary motor cortex)
-Prefrontal cortex

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Prefrontal Cortex

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  • higher order brain functions
  • rational thought, reasoning, decision making, apathy, sense of self
  • executive functions (coordination of entire brain, integration of thought processes)
  • Broca’s Area
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Broca’s Area

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If not working, hinders ability to form speech and communicate (tan tan tan tan tan)

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Pituitary Gland

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Regulates other endocrine glands

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Left hemisphere

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Fine tuned language skills, speech production/comprehension, facial expressions, motion detection

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Right Hemisphere

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Course language skills, simple speech, other stuff who knows

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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Electrodes on scalp, measure electric activity waves

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Position Emission Tomography (PET)

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Visual location of radioactive glucose when brain performs tasks. (Shows which part of brain is associated with what actions)

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Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI)

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Pics of brain anatomy with magnetic fields

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Functional MRI (FMRI)

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Successive MRIs compared to show brain activity, evidenced by 02 in blood flow

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Synaptic cleft

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Space between neurons

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Neuron Types

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Sensory, Motor, Interneurons

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemical messages (outside of neurons)

Emotion, thought, or behavior

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Agonist

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Mimic/enhance actions of NTs

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Antagonists

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Inhibit/block NTs

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Glutamate

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Main excitatory NT
Enhances action potential
Sensory info&learning
*too much over excites brain, associated with schizophrenia

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GABA

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Main inhibitory NT
Inhibits action potential
Helps sleep, anxiety, intoxication

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Acetylcholine

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Motor function

Attention, memory, sleep

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Norepinephrine

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(Adrenaline)

Arousal, alertness, mood, hunger

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Serotonin

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Emotional state, sleep cycle, impulse control, temperature regulation
*low amounts associated with depression

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Dopamine

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Reward and motivation, Motor control over voluntary movement, frontal lobe activity
Helps with survival stuff

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Endorphins

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Pain reduction, rewards

45
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Central Nervous System

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The Brain and Spinal Chord

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Somatic and Autonomic

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Somatic

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PNS.. conveys info from brain to rest of body, controlling and coordinating VOLUNTARY movements

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Autonomic

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PNS.. Involuntary movements

  • sympathetic
  • parasympathetic
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Sympathetic

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PNS-> Autonomic -> this.

Crisis, fight or flight

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Parasympathetic

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PNS-> autonomic-> this.

-rest and digestion

51
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Freud

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Psychoanalysis, analyzing unconscious/psyche

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Behavioralism

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Pavlov, Skinner, Watson

All that matters is what you see and how you behave (fuck your psyche, Freud)

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Humanism

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Maslow

UR gr8!!! Think about where ur goin!! You’re inherently good bby UwU

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Cognitivism

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U know what…… we probably like,,, use our brains and…,.,. Thi.nk,,,,,

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Operational definition

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Crystal clear explanation of hypothesis

(Ex: instead of “i think they’ll stand up more” u say “I think they’ll stand up 3 times more than the average of 1 time” or “I think they’ll stand up twice as often than the average”)

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Forebrain

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Motivation, emotion, complex thought

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Cerebral cortex

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Controls complex thought process

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