psycology

Question 1

What does the frontal lobe contain?

Answer 1

Primary motor cortext

Question 2

Frontal lobe controls?

Answer 2

planning, movement, problem solving, speech, personality

Question 3

disorder in the frontal lobe?+ elaborate

Answer 3

broca’s aphasia - word meaning difficulties, sentence structure suffering, stuggling to produce short sentences.

Question 4

what does the parietal lobe contain?

Answer 4

somatosensory cortex

Question 5

Parietal lobe controls?

Answer 5

touch temp. pain

Question 6

disorder in parietal lobe

Answer 6

phantom limb disorder - sensation that a missing limb is still there.

Question 7

occipital lobe contains

Answer 7

primary vision cortex

Question 8

occipital lobe controls

Answer 8

colour of light, interprets visual information

Question 9

disorder in occipital lobe

Answer 9

cortical blindness - a person is able to respond to dark and light but unable to distinguish forms or patterns

Question 10

temporal lobe contains

Answer 10

auditory cortex

Question 11

temporal lobe controls

Answer 11

hearing, memory, emotion, language.

Question 12

disorder to temporal lobe

Answer 12

wernicke’s aphasia - loses ability to understand speech, their words make no sense

Question 13

3 parts of the brain

Answer 13

cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem

Question 14

cerebrum?

Answer 14

controls the body. think, imagine, plan, make rational decisions.

Question 15

cerebellum?

Answer 15

underneath the cerebrum. posture, coordination, balance, movement.

Question 16

brain stem

Answer 16

base of the brain. involuntary actions. extremely vital to body.

Question 17

parts of the nervous system?

Answer 17

central nervous system, peripheral nervous system.

Question 18

cns consists of?

Answer 18

brain and spinal cord

Question 19

pns consists of

Answer 19

, nerves that extend from the spinal cord to extremities.

Question 20

dendites?

Answer 20

communication between neurons

Question 21

axon

Answer 21

carries messages to and from the cell body

Question 22

cell body

Answer 22

receives and send smassages

Question 23

types of neurons

Answer 23

sensory neurons, relay neurons, motor neurons

Question 24

synapse?

Answer 24

gap between 2 neurons.

Question 25

neuroplasticity

Answer 25

where nerve cells make new connections to learn new things. rewiring our brain.

Question 26

homeostasis

Answer 26

maintenance of a constant internal enviroment.

Question 27

stimulus response model?

Answer 27

stimulus-receptor-control cnetre-effector-response

Question 28

reflex actions

Answer 28

cns sends electrical signals via the spinal cord to the muscles.

Question 29

endocrine system + hormones

Answer 29

production of hormones. Hormones aree protein secretes directly into the bloodstream.

Question 30

3 g's

Answer 30

gulcagon, glycogen, glucose

Question 31

gulcagon?

Answer 31

released when blood glucose is low. hormone formed in the pancreas. promotes the breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver.

Question 32

glucose

Answer 32

sugar, energy source

Question 33

what does the left hemisphere do?

Answer 33

language and speech

Question 34

what does the right hemisphere do?

Answer 34

artistic ability and spacial awareness