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Exam #1
Psych 101
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Frontal lobe | Higher order cognitive function / motor function, movement, planning / language production / personality, decision making, self control |
| Frontal lobe damage | Apraxia (loss of ability to do a skill) or Broca's aphasia (language production) |
| Occipital lobe | Vision, color perception |
| Occipital lobe damage | Blindness or agnosia (impaired visual recognition) |
| Parietal lobe | Sensory integration, touch / helps to pay attention and locate / supports a map of our body's skin surface and the sense of touch |
| Parietal lobe damage | Agnosias (inability) to recognize) or hemispatial neglect syndrome (Eyes Right) |
| Temporal lobe | Memory, hearing, language comprehension |
| Temporal lobe damage | Hallucinations or receptive aphasia (Wernicke's, old man video) |
| Amygdala | Emotional associations |
| Hippocampus | Memories of time and place, spatial navigation |
| Hypothalamus | Master controller! Homeostasis |
| Pituitary gland | Master gland! Controls other glands |
| Thalamus | Sensory pathway to and from cortex |
| Midbrain | Information relay, wakefulness, involuntary movements |
| Pons | Regulates breathing relays sensations from the cortex to the sub cortex |
| Medulla | Survival (breathing, heart rate), reflexes (coughing, swallowing) |
| Basal ganglia | Planning and executing movement |
| Cerebellum | Precision, balance, timing, cognition |
| Stanovich | Case studies and testimonial evidence is only useful in studies early on. The existence of the placebo effect proves that humans' testimonials cannot always be reliable. Humans overweigh evidence that is more vivvid because it is easier to recount |
| Turkheimer | Nature via nurture, twin studies, behavioral genetics, and the heritability coefficient |
| Buss | Sexual selection, sexual strategy theory and EMT |
| Error management theory | A theory of selection under conditions of uncertainty in which recurrent cost asymmetries of judgment or inference favor the evolution of adaptive cognitive biases that function to minimize the more costly errors |
| Sacks | Eyes right/hemispatial neglect Disembodied lady/acute polyneuropathy |
| Gazzaniga | Split brain |
| Bhatia & Loewenstein | Drive states/attention narrowing/homeostasis/regulatory(hunger)/non-regulatory(sex) |
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