Psychology test- Brain Flashcards
What is Occipital lobe responsible for
- Decode visual information
- Located at back of brain
What are the frontal lobes responsible for
- Reasoning and planning
- Makes up personality and
- Voluntary body movement initiated by frontal lobes
- Left frontal lobe allows you to convert thoughts into words.
What is the partial lobes responsible for
Handels sensory perception
- The five senses including associating memories w senses
- Helps you understand written and spoken language
What is the temporal lobe responsible for
-Lets you distinguish the volume and frequency of sound.
-Formind and recalling memory
Right: visual memmory
Left: Verbal memmory
What is the Hypothalmus
MATURATION
- Manages the bodies eternal clock that manages sleep and body temperature.
- hypothalamus regulates body temperature, hunger, fatigue and metabolic processes in general.
What is the Thalamus
COMMUNICATION CENTRE
- Keeps each part of the brain awar of what its doing.e
- relays visual, auditory, taste, and touch information to the cortex.
- involved in exchanges of motor signals between the cortex, basal ganglia and cerebellum.
What is Basal Ganglia
Initiating and controlling movements and modelling sensation.
-located on either parts of the thalamus.
What is the cerebellum responsible for
- maintain posture,
- Intergrates informaiton from other motor areas of the body and coordinate the body’s movmment to make them fluid and precise.
What is corpse Callosum
A thick band of nerve fibers containing millions of axons in which regions of the brain’s two hemispheres communiate with each other.
What is the spinal cord responsible for
It connects your brain to your lower back. Your spinal cord carries nerve signals from your brain to your body and vice versa. These nerve signals help you feel sensations and move your body.
