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1
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What part of the brain is in charge of heartbeat and breathing?

A

Medulla

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What part of the brain is in charge of movements and involved with dreams

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Pons

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What part of the brain is in charge of all sensory info except for smell?

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Thalamus

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What part of the brain is in charge of Memory thinking and helps coordinate voluntary movement

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Cerebellum

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What system of the brain is the emotional system?

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limbic system

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What part of the brain is in charge of agression and fear (emotional responses)

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Amygdala

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7
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What part of the brain is in charge of eating drinking sex and temperature?

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Hypothalamus

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8
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What part of the brain helps process memories of facts and storage

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Hippocampus

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9
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What part of the brain has a ton of neural cells

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Cerebral cortex

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10
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frontal lobe

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Prefrontal cortex and motor cortex

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Parietal lobe

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Sensory cortex and gustatory cortex

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12
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occiptal love

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Primary visual cortex

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13
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Temperal lobe

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Auditory cortex and olfactory cortex

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14
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Frontal lobe helps us do what

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Inhibitions judgement and controlling emotions

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15
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Parietal lobes helps us with what?

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Mathmatical and spatial reasoning

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16
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Temporal lobe helps us with what

A

recognize faces

17
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What is the right size of the brain better at?

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Specialization recignize face emotions self awareness making inferances changes speach to make it clear

18
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Left brain is better at?

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Language and math

19
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duel process is what?

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Conscious left brain intuitive right brain