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psychology prep 1
areas in the brain, brain structures
| Question | Answer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Corpus Callosum | 1. Large bundle of fibres. | 2. Connects right and left hemospheres of brain. | 3. Allows movement of information between the hemospheres. |
| The Cingulate Gyrus | 1. Regulates emotion and pains | 2. Directly drives body's response to unpleasant experience | 3. Fear, prediction and avoidance of negative consequences (feature of memory) |
| Limbic system | 1. Group of structures (hippocampus, epithalamas, Dendate Gyrus, Amygdala, Hypothalamas, Entorhinal cortex) | 2. Processing and regulating memory, response to odors, autonamic nervous system, sexual arousal, stress, emotion, endocrine system |