Psych unit 1 Flashcards
what is the definition of Psychology
Scientific study of Affect, Behavior, and Cognition in humans and animals.
who was Phineas Gage
A man who got a tamping Iron plunged 3ft through his skull.
the injury affected his frontal cortex messing with his personality.
what is in the central nervous system
brain and spinal cord
what is in the peripheral nervous system
somatic and autonomic
sympathic and parasympathic
what is the somatic NS
Voluntary movements
what is the Autonomic NS
Involuntary actions
includes the sympathic and parasympthaic
what is the sympathic NS
The threat/ stress system
“ Fight or Flight”
what is the parasympathic
what calms us back down after a stressful event
what allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate
the Corpus Collosum connects the two hemispheres
what does the right hemisphere control
visual/ non verbal communication
what does the left hemisphere control
the verbal/ language
name the four lobes and what the control
Frontal Lobe: Front of the head, last to devolp, impulse control, personality, filters
Temporal Lobe,
located by the temple and ears, language and hearing, understanding and producing language and communication
Occipital: back of the head vision
Parietal: Middle of the head sensory ability to have motor and movemnet
what does the Somato cortex allow us to do
sensation the ability to feel
what does the primary cortex do
allow us to move
what is the split brain research
our brains process information through both hemispheres and splitting. the brain slows this process but also isolates damage caused by seizures
