AP Psych-Brain Parts

the limbic system

includes the hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala, and thalamus. Involved in learning, motivation, emotion, and memory

Hippocampus

Memory, helps with formation, organization, and storage of new memories into long ones

hypothalamus

works with pituitary gland, maintains homeostasis (hunger, thirst, body temperature), linked with emotion 

Amygdala

fear/aggression, lower end of the hippocampus, attached significance to events associated to fear/emotion

thalamus

sensory control, receives sensory information and sends them to the appropriate areas of the forebrain, every sense but smell

cerebellum

little brain”, coordination, balance and procedural memory

brainstem

includes pons, reticular attention formation, medulla

pons 

coordinate sleep and movement, bridge from medulla to brain 

reticular attention formation

filters incoming stimuli, only relaying what is important to brain, alertness, actives consciousness 

medulla (oblongata) 

base of brainstem, blood pressure, heartbeat, breathing