Psych - Final Test

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Temporal lobe

A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and language.

Occipital lobe

visual processing

Frontal lobe

associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving

MRI

magnetic resonance imaging

Cerebellum

the "little brain" at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance

Medulla

controls heartbeat and breathing

Broca's area

speech production (talking)

Limbic system

Wraps around the thalamus, gives ability to form emotion and memory

peripheral nervous system

Carries info to the motor/interneurons from the environment.

Somatic nervous system

Responsible for controlling the muscles and sensory information from the body

Automatic nervous system

Controls body functions without conscious thought, like blood pressure, and heart rate

Hormone

Chemical messengers

motor neurons

Nerves responsible for all skeletal and somatic movement

sensory neurons

Nerves that transmit sensory information from the body to the central nervous system.

Interneurons

nerve cells which connect the sensory nerves and motor nerves

hypothalamus

analyzes blood flow to sustain homeostasis

motor cortex

Located at the back of the frontal lobe and is divided into 2 parts. Responsible for movement of your body parts

hippocampus

A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage.

Amygdala

Processes emotions and creates emotion-based memories. Large roll in feeling of pleasure, close to hippocampus

synapse

Connection gap between two neurons

thalamus

an egg-shaped part of the brain that acts as a relay station for sensory and motor information