Psych Study Guide 3 Flashcards
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the processing of both conscious and unconscious information simultaneously
Dual processing
control—the ability to resist urges and thoughts that offer short-term benefits rather than long-term.
impulse control
A dynamite accident sent a metal rod through his frontal cortex–he was perfectly healthy, but now more abrasive, ill-tempered personality
Phineas Gage
This area (cerebrum) is responsible for interpreting, integrating, and acting on sensory info and linking it with stored memories
Association areas
a disorder in which the parts of the
brain that recognize features has been damaged, we can no longer
remember or recognize faces
prosopagnosia
the idea that some functions are more dominant in one side of the brain.
hemispheric specialization
What side of the brain?
Roughly speaking
Mastery
Organization of what we already know (like speech)
left side
What side of the brain?
Exploring new ideas or concepts we don’t understand
Creativity
Complex and inferential thought
right side
the notion that visual fields and motor functions run by the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
brain lateralization
is the brain’s ability to change across one’s life or mend itself after damage by developing new or alternative neural pathways from existing neurons.
plasticity
additionally, recent research has shown that the brain can slowly create small amounts of new neurons.
neurogenesis
the area in the left hemisphere that controls language expression. Discovered by Paul Broca, the Broca area of the frontal lobe directs muscle movements involved in speech.
Broca’s area
the inability to understand or formulate language.
Aphasia
controls language reception & plays a key role in language development. It is located in the temporal lobe on the left hemisphere.
Carl Wernicke
group is an alkyl derived from methane, containing one carbon atom
bonded to three hydrogen atoms — CH3. In formulas, the group is often abbreviated Me. Such
hydrocarbon groups occur in many organic compounds.
Methyl Molecules
won a Nobel prize for his research on the split brain, it’s interaction, and motor and
sensory neurogenesis.
Sperry
emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind, and a primary assumption of
Freudian theory is that the unconscious mind governs behavior to a greater degree than
people suspect.
Freud
This area contains the largest bundle of nerve fibers in the brain and
connects the two sides (hemispheres) of the brain.
Corpus Callosum
individual neurons—or groups of neurons—in the
brain which code for perceptually significant stimuli.
Feature Receptors
Hemispheric Specialization
the idea that some functions are more dominant in one side of
the brain.
A dynamite accident sent a metal rod through his frontal cortex–he was
perfectly healthy, but now more abrasive, ill-tempered personality.
Phineas Gage
Plasticity
is the brain’s ability to change across one’s life or mend itself after damage by
developing new or alternative neural pathways from existing neurons.
Epigenetics
Factors such as stress, diet, and drugs or chemicals can act as activators or
deactivators, and change a gene’s expression.
Brain Lateralization
Lateralization of the brain hemispheres refers to a functional dominance of one hemisphere over the other, in which one is more responsible or entirely responsible for control of a function in comparison to the other.
