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Psy Brain Parts
What the parts of the brain control
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the parts of the brain stem? | Pons, Medulla, and Reticular activating system |
| Pons are involved in what? | Sleeping, waking, and dreaming |
| Medulla is involved in what? | Certain automatic functions, such as breathing and heart rate |
| Reticular Activating System | Arouses cortex and screens incoming information |
| Cerebellum | Regulates movement and balance; involved in remembering simple skills and acquired reflexes; plays a part in analyzing sensory information, solving problems, and understanding words |
| Thalamus | Relays sensory messages, except smells, to the cerebral cortex |
| Hypothalamus | Involved in emotions and survival instincts; and regulates ANS |
| Pituitary Gland | Endocrine gland that releases hormones and regulates other endocrine glands |
| Amygdala | Responsible for arousal, regulation of emotion, initial emotional responses; plays an important role in mediating anxiety and depression and emotional memory |
| Hippocampus | Responsible for storing new information in memory, comparing sensory information with the brain's expectations, and enabling the formation of spatial memories |
| Cerebrum | In charge of most sensory, motor, and cognitive processes |
| What are the lobes of the the cerebral cortex? | Occipital lobes, parietal lobes, temporal lobes, and frontal lobes. |
| Occipital lobes | Receive visual information |
| Parietal lobes | Receive information on pressure, pain, touch, and temperature. |
| Temporal lobes | Involved in memory, perception, emotion, hearing, and (in the left lobe) language comprehension |
| Frontal lobes | Involved in emotion, planning, creative thinking, motor, short-term memory, initiative, social judgement, and (left lobe) speech production |