Test Flashcards
Responsibility of lobes
Higher mental functions
Parietal lobe
Contains sensory strip
Registers senses
Spacial, how much space u have
Occipital lobe
Interprets what you see
Seeing colors
Recognizing objects animals people etc
Temporal lobe
Hearing and speech functions
Cerebral cortex
Outermost level of brain
Divide into 4 lobes
Controls high level mental processes
Psychologist
PhD in psych 6/7 years
Psychiatrist
Medical doctor who prescribes medicine
History - Ancient greeks
Thought blood determined personality Too much.. black- depression/sadness yellow- bitter and angry white-dull and sluggish
History - renaissance
“Rebirth” period
Greek philosophy reappeared&scientific experiments
Graves were robbed
Father of phsycology
William wundt
1879 first psych lab to study humans founded in
Germany by william wundt
1892 history what was founded
American phycological ass
___ 1900s starts interpretting dreams and developing___
Sigmund freud, theories on personalities
1905 history
First IQ test
1920 first afro american doctrate in psych
Frances cecil summer
1933
Nazi persecution of psychologists
1946 president signs
Truman signs national mental act after ww2
Left hem
Language
Write
Arithmetic
Understand others
Corpus callosum
Wide band of nerve cells connects 2 hemispheres and carries messages between them
Neurotransmitters
Chemicals in end of neurons that send info across the synapse
Synapse
Junction point of two or more neurons
Axon
Part of neuron that carries messages from the cell to dendrites
What is a neuron
Nervous (nerve) cell thats trasnmits electrical and chemical info via neurotransmitters thru body
The nervous system
Breaks into central nervous sys (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nervous sys (nerves outside brain and spinal cord)
Brain
Weighs 6 pounds
Organ of thought and central control point of nervous sys
Spinal cord
Functions as automatic “brain”
Relay station for impulses to and from higher brain
Reflex
Automatix behavior of body involving movement thats activated thru spinal cord w/o use of higher brain
What does peripheral nervous sys break into
Autonomic n sys
Automatic control of body;breathing
Somatic n sys
Contains sensory and motor nerves
What does autonomic break into
Sympathetic
Prepares for emergencies
Parasympathetic
Calms u down
Which starts digestions
Parasympathetic n sys in autonomic n sys
Thalamus
Relay station, sends messages between brain and body
Hypothalus
Controls rage pleasure hunger thirst sexual desire
Cerebellum
Guides coordination, balance, accuracy
Reticular activating sys
Keeps us alert or puts us to sleep
Amygdala
Emotional responses, especially agression
Hippocampus
Forming memories
Brain stem/ spinal cord
Oldest part and central core of brain
Responsible for automatic functions
Limbic system
Lower brain area
Emotions and memory
Endocrine sys
Glands and hormones
Hormones
Chemical regulators that influence bodily processes and control
Emtional responses, growth and sexuality
Held inside glands
Pituitary gland
Main gland Sends messages to other glands -determines height -growth hormones On brain
Thyroid gland
Controls metabolism, speed at which the body operates of speed at which it uses energy
Plays role in emotional state
Throat
Adrenal gland
Prepares for emeegency
Helps blood clot faster
Has adrenaline
Above kidney
Whats adrenaline
Chemical that prepares body for emergency by increasing blood pressure, breathing
Gonads
Sex glands Make sperm or egg Androgen-men Estrogen-women Near chest
Frontal lobe
Has prefrontal area & Frontal assoc. area (personality/complex thoughts)
Has motor strip
Controls bodily movement
Right hem
Responsible for art and music skills
Frontal ass area
Strongly influences personality
Endorfins
Painkillers
Makes u feel gud
