test 1 - part 3 Flashcards
In what brain region would damage be the most likely to perhaps leave you in a coma?
- Reticular Formation
What brain region would damage be the most likely to cut off the very breath and heartbeat of life?
- Medulla
Cerebellum “little brain”
- enables nonverbal learning, coordinates voluntary movement bike, jump rope, weights
If your cerebellum was damaged….
- It would be hard to walk, and you wouldn’t respond as well to classical conditioning
Where is the Limbic System located?
- btwn the oldest and newest brain areas “border”
What does the Limbic System contain?
- hypothalamus
- Hippocampus
- Amygdala
What does the Limbic system do?
- involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory
Basal Ganglia does what?
- directs intentional movement
- receives input from the cerebral cortex, filters stimuli, replays important info to other brain areas, controls arousal
Where is the Basal Ganglia located?
- inside the brainstem, btwn the ears
Amygdala is the ______ headquarters
- Emotion
Where is the amygdala located?
- tip of each side of the hippocampus
What do the amygdala do?
- play central role in emotional processes, formation of emotional memories, attached significance to events associated with FEAR, punishment, or reward.
(if you break your arm skydiving, you’ll be scared of skydiving because of them)
Hypothalamus is located where?
- below the thalamus
in a person with a severed ______ info sharing does not occur
- corpus callosum
Visual info that is presented the right/left visual field is transferred and processed in the ______
- left and right hemispheres
Children’s brains are much more ______ than adults
- plastic
Neurogenesis
- production of new brain cells
intuition
- an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit conscious reasoning
Hindsight bias
- tendency to believe AFTER learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it “I knew it all along”
Ex of hindsight bias
- highschool quarterback and head get together
2 factors that support tendency for hindsight bias
- selective recall
- need for closure
3 levels of hindsight bias
- 1) memory distortion ( I said it would happen )
- 2) inevitability
- 3) Foreseeability ( I knew it would happen )
Ex 2 of hindsight bias
- ben sees it’s cloudy outside, thinks to himself it’ll rain this afternoon, when it does rain, Ben says that he was certain it was going to rain
ex 3 of hindsight bias
- im nervous for the test that I hardly studied for, when I take it i think i did bad, when i get a B back, i say “I thought I A’ced it” and actually believed in hindsight
metal processes
- internal, subjective experience we can infer but not record
biopsychology approach
- integrated approach that incorporates biological psych and social cultural levels of analysis
Nature vs Nurture issue
- controversy regarding the relative contribution that genes and experience make to the development of psych traits and behaviors
natural selection
- nature selects traits that best enable an organism to sure and reproduce
charles Darwin
- raged that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies
counseling psych
- branch of psych that assists ppl with problems in living and in achieving greater well being
