psycology Flashcards
What does the frontal lobe contain?
Primary motor cortext
Frontal lobe controls?
planning, movement, problem solving, speech, personality
disorder in the frontal lobe?+ elaborate
broca’s aphasia - word meaning difficulties, sentence structure suffering, stuggling to produce short sentences.
what does the parietal lobe contain?
somatosensory cortex
Parietal lobe controls?
touch temp. pain
disorder in parietal lobe
phantom limb disorder - sensation that a missing limb is still there.
occipital lobe contains
primary vision cortex
occipital lobe controls
colour of light, interprets visual information
disorder in occipital lobe
cortical blindness - a person is able to respond to dark and light but unable to distinguish forms or patterns
temporal lobe contains
auditory cortex
temporal lobe controls
hearing, memory, emotion, language.
disorder to temporal lobe
wernicke’s aphasia - loses ability to understand speech, their words make no sense
3 parts of the brain
cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem
cerebrum?
controls the body. think, imagine, plan, make rational decisions.
cerebellum?
underneath the cerebrum. posture, coordination, balance, movement.