Chapter 3: Biological Psychology

Front 1

Define the functions and location of the Frontal Lobe.

Back 1

Location: Top front of the brain
Function: planning and decision making, certain kinds of memory (developing strategies for remembering), and personality

Front 2

Define the function and location of Broca's area.

Back 2

Location: in a portion of the left frontal lobe (in most people)
Function: Speech prodcution

Front 3

Define the function and location of the Motor cortex.

Back 3

Location: The rear of the frontal lobe in both hemispheres
Function: vouluntary muscle movement, language production, higher level thought processes

Front 4

Define the function and location of the Parietal lobe.

Back 4

Location: roughly the top middle portion of the brain
Function: Contains the somatosensory cortex though which people experiance the sense of touch

Front 5

Define the function and location of the Temporal lobe

Back 5

Location: on either side of the cortex
Function: Processing audiotry information; involved in certain aspects of speech and language perception

Front 6

Define the function and location of the occipital lobe

Back 6

location: back of the brain
Function: Visual processing

Front 7

Define the function and location of Wernicke's area

Back 7

Location: In the temporal lobe of the left cerebral hemisphere
Function: language comprehension