Psychobio Flashcards
Four main areas of the brain
. parietal lobe
frontal occipital lobe
temporal lobe
Aphasia
deficit with language
Broca’s Aphasia
problems with speech production (physically hard to move mouth)
- you can understand others
Broca’s area -> frontal lobe
- B first in alphabet, frontal lobe, first part of brain
Wernicke’s Aphasia = W W = word salad
Wernicke’s Aphasia
problem processing and understanding language (word salad)
- no problem mechanically moving mouth but words don’t make sense
Wernicke’s area -> temporal lobe
Apraxia
deficit of motion
Agnosia
deficit of “knowing”
Prosopagnosia
inability to recognize familiar people based on their face