psycology Flashcards

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1
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What does the frontal lobe contain?

A

Primary motor cortext

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2
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Frontal lobe controls?

A

planning, movement, problem solving, speech, personality

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3
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disorder in the frontal lobe?+ elaborate

A

broca’s aphasia - word meaning difficulties, sentence structure suffering, stuggling to produce short sentences.

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4
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what does the parietal lobe contain?

A

somatosensory cortex

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5
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Parietal lobe controls?

A

touch temp. pain

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6
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disorder in parietal lobe

A

phantom limb disorder - sensation that a missing limb is still there.

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7
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occipital lobe contains

A

primary vision cortex

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8
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occipital lobe controls

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colour of light, interprets visual information

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9
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disorder in occipital lobe

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cortical blindness - a person is able to respond to dark and light but unable to distinguish forms or patterns

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10
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temporal lobe contains

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auditory cortex

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temporal lobe controls

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hearing, memory, emotion, language.

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12
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disorder to temporal lobe

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wernicke’s aphasia - loses ability to understand speech, their words make no sense

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13
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3 parts of the brain

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cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem

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cerebrum?

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controls the body. think, imagine, plan, make rational decisions.

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cerebellum?

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underneath the cerebrum. posture, coordination, balance, movement.

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16
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brain stem

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base of the brain. involuntary actions. extremely vital to body.

17
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parts of the nervous system?

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central nervous system, peripheral nervous system.

18
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cns consists of?

A

brain and spinal cord

19
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pns consists of

A

, nerves that extend from the spinal cord to extremities.

20
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dendites?

A

communication between neurons

21
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axon

A

carries messages to and from the cell body

22
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cell body

A

receives and send smassages

23
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types of neurons

A

sensory neurons, relay neurons, motor neurons

24
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synapse?

A

gap between 2 neurons.

25
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neuroplasticity

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where nerve cells make new connections to learn new things. rewiring our brain.

26
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homeostasis

A

maintenance of a constant internal enviroment.

27
Q

stimulus response model?

A

stimulus-receptor-control cnetre-effector-response

28
Q

reflex actions

A

cns sends electrical signals via the spinal cord to the muscles.

29
Q

endocrine system + hormones

A

production of hormones. Hormones aree protein secretes directly into the bloodstream.

30
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3 g’s

A

gulcagon, glycogen, glucose

31
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gulcagon?

A

released when blood glucose is low. hormone formed in the pancreas. promotes the breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver.

32
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glucose

A

sugar, energy source

33
Q

what does the left hemisphere do?

A

language and speech

34
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what does the right hemisphere do?

A

artistic ability and spacial awareness