Intro To Psych Chap 4

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Part of the brain that is the basic structure around which the rest developed. Similar to reptiles.

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Inner/Lower Portion (Reptilian)

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The second layer of the brain

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The Paleomammalian Brain

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Thought to be responsible for our capacities to experience complex emotions, motivations, curiousities etc.
Made up of the Reptilian/Paleomammalian Brain

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The Limbic System

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Third Part of the brain involved in planning, self awareness and language- human characterisitics

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The Neomammalian Brain/ Cerebral Cortex

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4 lobes of the cerebral cortex

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Frontal, Occipital, Temporal, Parietal

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Lobe responsible for associating or connecting different kinds of information and motor behavior

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Frontal

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Lobe involved with vision

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Occipital

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Lobe involved in hearing and verbalization

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Temporal

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Lobe involved in servicing other sensory systems

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Parietal

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French surgeon who who worked with a patient w/ a brain injury and discovered area having to do with speech

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Paul Broca

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Part of the brain on the left side of the frontal lobe involved with speech production

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Boca's area

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A large bundle of nerves attached to each hemisphere of the brain

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Corpus Callosum

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Hemisphere largely responsible for comprehension and production of language, reasoning and analytical thinking

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Left Hemisphere

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Hemisphere largely responsible for visual perception and spatial understanding

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Right Hemisphere

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Person who performed the first purposeful brain surgery

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Moniz

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Severing the nerves that connect the front of the cerebral cortex to the thalamus.

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Prefrontal Lobotomies

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It was once believed that a reduced ability to respond emotionally to stimuli or events occurs when you remove the

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Frontal Lobes

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Chemicals that help relay information from one neuron to another

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Neurotransmitters

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Neurotransmitter that can result in anxiety if levels are too low

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Serotonin

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Biological chemicals that can travel within the bloodstream as well as through the central nervous system

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Hormones

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The three sources of hormones that appear to affect behavior:

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-Hypothalamus
-gonads
-adrenal cortex

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Conducted research on testosterone levels, related to conflict. Correlational Data

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Dabbs and Morris

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Reported that males with relatively high levels of testosterone are more extroverted and have more sexual partners

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Zuckerman

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Tested testost. lvls. of incarcerated women who had/hadn't engaged in violence

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Dabbs, Ruback, Frady, Hopper and Sgoritas

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Found that female rats injected with testosterone engaged in mating behaviors that generally are atypical of female rats

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Goy and Goldfoot

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Biological transmission of traits that have evolved over generations

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Heredity

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Field that examines both species specific behavior patterns and universal ones. Bridges psychology and biology

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Behavioral Genetics

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Determined by a combination of genes

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Polygenic

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Each cell in our bodies contain how many genes?

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30-40 thousand

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Large complex molecules made up of DNA

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chromosomes

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A person's DNA consists of about ____ DNA sequences spread throughout our chromosomes

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3 billion

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A less direct way of studying the influence of genes on human behavior where the closer individuals are with respect to their genetic ancestry the more genes they share in common

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Kinship studies