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chapter 2 psych
Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a sensory neuron? | Carry information from body's sense receptors to the central nervous system. Goes from all over the body to the brain. |
| What is an interneuron? | Send messages really quickly. Can send messages from sensory neurons to motor neurons & more without involving the brain, which makes reacting faster. |
| What is a motor neuron? | Messages that tell our body how to move. Goes from brain to all over the body. |
| What does the frontal lobe do? | It is responsible for thinking, some memory, planning, and understanding, in Wernicke's Area. |
| What does the temporal lobe do? | Processed auditory information, |
| What are the parts of the hindbrain? | Medulla, cerebellum, reticular formation, and pons. |
| What does the medulla do? | Controls breathing, heartbeat, swallowing, and other reflexes. |
| What does pons do? | Balance, hearing, and regulating muscles and internal organs. |
| What does the cerebellum do? | Acts like a mini brain, associating with memory, learning, and muscle movements/coordination. |
| What does the reticular formation do? | network of fibers and cells that controls attention, muscle tone, and cardiac reflex. |
| What are the parts of the forebrain? | THE LITTLE HAIRY ALLIGATOR HAS COLORFUL CANDY: thalamus, limbic system, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, corpus collosum. |
| What are the parts of the Limbic system? | thalamus, hippocampus, amygdala |
| What does the thalamus do? | links upper and lower centers of brain. |
| What does the hypothalamus do? | Master controller of emotions. |
| What does the corpus collosum do? | Neural fibers that carry messages to left and right side of brain. |
| What does the amygdala do? | Focus on conscious experiences |
| What does the cerebral cortex do? | influences fear and aggression. |
| What is the psychodynamic perspective and who came up with it? | This focuses on unconscious feelings and thoughts influencing our behaviors; Sigmund Freud. |
| What is the behavioral perspective and who came up with it? | This focuses on learning behavior, stimuli, punishment, and reinforcement; Edward Thorndike and John B Watson. |
| What is the cognitive perspective and who came up with it? | Focuses on how we think and process information; Jean Piaget. |
| What is the biological perspective and who came up with it? | Focuses on the brain and genes influence' Wilhem Wundt. |
| What is the cross-cultural perspective and who came up with it? | Focuses on cultural context and how that changes behavior and thoughts; Gustav Jahoda. |
| What is the evolutionary perspective and who came up with it? | Looks at natural selection and inheritance; based on Charles Darwins Book on the Origin of species. |
| What is the humanistic perspective and who came up with it? | focuses on self growth and improvement; Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
| What part of the brain is responsible for language and who found that out? | Broca's area, found by Broca. |
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