Chapter 3: Foundations of Behavior Flashcards
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Spinal Cord
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- Ctrls simple stretch and tendon reflex
- Ctrls primitive functions like walking, urination, sex organs
- Mainly site for reflexes
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Medulla Oblangata
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- Regulates vital autonomic functions like HR, BP, swallowing
- Relays info to the cerebellum and the thalamus
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Pons
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- Ctrls anti-gravity posture and balance
- Connects spinal cord and medulla with upper region of the brain
- Relays info to the cerebellum and the thalamus
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Cerebellum
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- Integration center for complex mov’t, balance and posture, spatial equilibrium, and muscle tone
- Info from frontal lobe concerning mov’t must go through here first before function is executed.
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Midbrain
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- Site of Visual and auditory integration and deals visual and auditory reflexes
- Wakefulness and consciousness
- Coordinates info on posture and muscle tone
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Thalamus
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- Relay center for somatic (conscious) sensations
- Relays info b/w spinal cord and the cerebral cortex
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Hypothalamus
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- Ctrls homeostatic functions through neural and hormonal regulation
- Has centers that ctrl autonomic functions
- Ctrls pituitary gland
- Ctrls primitive emotions like anger, rage, and sex drive
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Basal Nuclei
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- Regulates body mov’t and muscle tone
- Coordination of learned mov’t patterns
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Limbic System
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- Ctrls emotional states
- links conscious and unconscious parts of the brain
- Helps with memory storage and retrieval
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Frontal Lobe
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- Starts all voluntary mov’t
- Involved in reason skills and problem solving
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Parietal Lobe
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Involved in general sensations (touch, temperature, pressure etc.) and gustation (taste)
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Temporal Lobe
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- Process auditory and olfactory sensations
- Involved in short-term memory, language comprehension, and emotion
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Occipital Lobe
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The vision center
