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Responsibility of lobes

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Higher mental functions

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Parietal lobe

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Contains sensory strip
Registers senses
Spacial, how much space u have

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Occipital lobe

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Interprets what you see
Seeing colors
Recognizing objects animals people etc

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4
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Temporal lobe

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Hearing and speech functions

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Cerebral cortex

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Outermost level of brain
Divide into 4 lobes
Controls high level mental processes

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6
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Psychologist

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PhD in psych 6/7 years

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Psychiatrist

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Medical doctor who prescribes medicine

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History - Ancient greeks

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Thought blood determined personality
Too much..
black- depression/sadness
yellow- bitter and angry
white-dull and sluggish
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History - renaissance

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“Rebirth” period
Greek philosophy reappeared&scientific experiments
Graves were robbed

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Father of phsycology

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William wundt

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1879 first psych lab to study humans founded in

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Germany by william wundt

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1892 history what was founded

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American phycological ass

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___ 1900s starts interpretting dreams and developing___

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Sigmund freud, theories on personalities

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1905 history

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First IQ test

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1920 first afro american doctrate in psych

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Frances cecil summer

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1933

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Nazi persecution of psychologists

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1946 president signs

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Truman signs national mental act after ww2

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Left hem

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Language
Write
Arithmetic
Understand others

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19
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Corpus callosum

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Wide band of nerve cells connects 2 hemispheres and carries messages between them

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemicals in end of neurons that send info across the synapse

21
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Synapse

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Junction point of two or more neurons

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Axon

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Part of neuron that carries messages from the cell to dendrites

23
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What is a neuron

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Nervous (nerve) cell thats trasnmits electrical and chemical info via neurotransmitters thru body

24
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The nervous system

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Breaks into central nervous sys (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nervous sys (nerves outside brain and spinal cord)

25
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Brain

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Weighs 6 pounds

Organ of thought and central control point of nervous sys

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Spinal cord

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Functions as automatic “brain”

Relay station for impulses to and from higher brain

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Reflex

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Automatix behavior of body involving movement thats activated thru spinal cord w/o use of higher brain

28
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What does peripheral nervous sys break into

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Autonomic n sys
Automatic control of body;breathing

Somatic n sys
Contains sensory and motor nerves

29
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What does autonomic break into

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Sympathetic
Prepares for emergencies

Parasympathetic
Calms u down

30
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Which starts digestions

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Parasympathetic n sys in autonomic n sys

31
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Thalamus

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Relay station, sends messages between brain and body

32
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Hypothalus

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Controls rage pleasure hunger thirst sexual desire

33
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Cerebellum

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Guides coordination, balance, accuracy

34
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Reticular activating sys

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Keeps us alert or puts us to sleep

35
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Amygdala

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Emotional responses, especially agression

36
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Hippocampus

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Forming memories

37
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Brain stem/ spinal cord

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Oldest part and central core of brain

Responsible for automatic functions

38
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Limbic system

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Lower brain area

Emotions and memory

39
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Endocrine sys

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Glands and hormones

40
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Hormones

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Chemical regulators that influence bodily processes and control
Emtional responses, growth and sexuality
Held inside glands

41
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Pituitary gland

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Main gland
Sends messages to other glands
-determines height
-growth hormones
On brain
42
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Thyroid gland

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Controls metabolism, speed at which the body operates of speed at which it uses energy
Plays role in emotional state
Throat

43
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Adrenal gland

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Prepares for emeegency
Helps blood clot faster
Has adrenaline
Above kidney

44
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Whats adrenaline

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Chemical that prepares body for emergency by increasing blood pressure, breathing

45
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Gonads

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Sex glands
Make sperm or egg 
Androgen-men
Estrogen-women
Near chest
46
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Frontal lobe

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Has prefrontal area & Frontal assoc. area (personality/complex thoughts)
Has motor strip
Controls bodily movement

47
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Right hem

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Responsible for art and music skills

48
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Frontal ass area

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Strongly influences personality

49
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Endorfins

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Painkillers

Makes u feel gud

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