AP Psych Unit 2: Parts of the Brain

heartbeat and respiration (dmg = death)

one (hemisphere) side controls the other

expressive aphasia

able to understand speech, but unable to speak because area is located near frontal lobe (motor control)

"Switchboard" that all nerves go through and be directed to parts of the brain (no smell)

Alertness and arousal (dmg = coma)

Balance and muscle (implicit) memory

Midbrain that regulates emotion and behavior

Primitive emotion (lust, fear, anger, sad, happy)

SEX, messages the endocrine system and regulates homeostasis

Explicit memory and where short-term memory becomes long-term memory (dmg = anterograde amnesia)

Inability to form new memories (reset memory each day)

Loss of past memories

Dreaming

Top layer of the brain

Does higher mental processes (thinking, planning, and decision making)

Manages the senses

Processes vision (dmg = blind)

Process auditory and smell

Manages voluntary movement

Detects and interprets info on touch, temp, pain, pressure, and controls awareness of body movement and position

Part of the cerebrum not associated with cortex (holds personality)

Prefrontal lobes

The brain's ability to rewire itself

Formation of new neurons

Neural highway connecting the hemispheres

Hemispheres act independent of each other due to cut corpus callosum

our awareness of ourselves and our environment

Controls expression of speech (left frontal near motor cortex)

Left temporal lobe, receptive aphasia

The inability to understand language (despite being able to hear it and produce it)

master gland