Chapter 2 Flashcards
(50 cards)
homeostasis
maintaining balance (metabolic thermostat)
Thermoreceptors
detect temperature changes in body
Satiety
tells you to stop eating
Intestine
remove water from food
Liver
stores sugars
Walter Cannon
Hunger-balloon
paraventricular nucleus
regulatory system for lateral and ventromedial
Lateral Hypothalmus
feeding center
Ventromedial Hypothalamus
satiety system
Hyperphagia
inability to stop eating
Cephalic Reflexes
see something that you’ve tasted and enjoyed before you salivate
Taste Aversion Learning
fear response to an item that made you sick before
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
prediction of how people will respond to facial expressions
empathy
Hippocampus
encoding and retrieval of memories
Cingulate Gyrus
control of attention
Corpus Collosum
bundle of interneurons that connects two sides of the brain
Basal Forebrain Nuclei
anything from olfactory bulb integration and emotion (not important in humans)
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
bilateral amygdala damage
decreased aggression
herpes can do this
Wilder Penfield
discovered electrical stimulation to brain and cognitive response
Vernon Mark
Julia S.
Zap control center inside brain (amygdala)
Broca’s area
speech production
Orbitofrontal Cortex
smell process
integrate thought and production
control center for some emotions
Phineas Gage
Tranorbital Labotomy
scramble frontal cortex to get thoughts out of your head
Anterior Cingulotomy
separating cingulate gyrus from other parts of limbic and frontal cortex
ridding of attending to negative thoughts