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14 Cards in this Set
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Central Core (Brain Stem) |
-regulates most important primitive behavior needed for survival |
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Medulla |
-most basic life functions (unconscious but essential) -breathing, swallowing, blood circulation |
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Cerebellum |
-coordination of movement -balance, sense of equilibrium -depressed by alcohol -damage=problems w fine motor skills |
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Thalamus |
-relay center for sensory info -sensory info received from sense receptors-thalamus-cortex -controls sleep and wakefulness |
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Hypothalamus |
-most influential structure -regulates what medulla doesn't -central role- basic survival drives- four Fs (felling,fighting, fleeing, freaking) |
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Reticular Formation |
-controls arousal sleep v wakefulness -focus attention of stimuli |
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Limbic System |
-structures interconnected w hypothalamus -emotion memory motivation -provides more control over instinctive behavior (inhibits 4 Fs) |
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Hippocampus |
-store new events as memories |
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Midbrain |
-helps coordinate reactions to sensory events |
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Amygdala |
-linked to motivational and emotional behaviors -if damaged can lead to extreme passiveness |
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Wernickes Area |
-temporal lobe -language comprehension -speech localized in temporal lobe of left hemisphere |
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Right Hemisphere |
-spatial tasks -emotional processing |
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Left Hemisphere |
-verbal tasks -solve problems -create consistent explanations of the world |
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When does activation increase? |
-when people look at faces showing -fear -anger -sadness -happiness |
