Psyc 1 Brain and neurons

Frontal Lobe

planning, making judgements, speaking, body movements

frontal lobe

parietal lobe

processes bodily sensations of touch visual, and spatial reasoning

parietal lobe

occipital lobe

occipital lobe

processes vision

temporal lobe

processes hearing

temporal lobe

corpus callosum

connection between two hemispheres, allowing communication

corpus callosum

pons

influential to dreams and sleep

pons

medulla

controls heartbeat and breath

medulla

reticular formation

controls awakeness and alertness

reticular formation

cerebellum

controls balence, coordination, and nonverbal learning

cerebellum

thalamus

relays sensory info to higher brain structures (not smell)

thalamus

hypothalamus

keeps body in balance (homeostasis)

hypothalamus

hippocampus

creates new memories

hippocampus

amygdala

influential with emotions, fear and anger primarily

amygdala

insomnia

repeated troubles of sleeping

night terrors

paralytic state that normally occurs when dreaming does not occur and causes them to thrash around and evem sleep walk

sleep apnea

occurs when sleeping, stops them from breathing. 10/20 seconds or longer

narcolepsy

sleep attacks

sleep walking

acts out dreams while sleeping: Jumping out of windows

NREM1

alpha waves

overall muscle tension and core body temp decreases

heartbeat slows

NREM2

theta waves

body goes into deep relaxation

NREM3

slow-wave sleep

delta waves

respiration and heart beat slows down further

REM

dreaming. you dream every REM session

paralysis of voluntary muscles

waves simliar to be awake

CNS

central nervous system

PNS

peripheral nervous system

Central Nervous System

Brain and spinal cord

Peripheral Nervous System

Nerves to and from CNS

Somatic

(skeleton) hearing touch, etc. muscles that move body

Autonomic

Internal senses for gut etc.

sympathetic nervous system

emergency (flight/flight)

Parasympathetic nervous system

“housingkeeping”
brings you back down

encocrine system

hormones through bloodstream

nervous system

nerves

pituitary gland

“master gland” controls secretions of other glands

thyroid

secretes thyroxine, regulates growth, metabolism, appetite

adrenal gland

adrenaline, stress response

gonad

secretes sex hormones, sexual motivation, repoduction etc.

pancreas

blood sugar

neuron

smallest unit of the nervous system

receives chemical messages and delivers chemical messages

Wilhelm Wundt

Founder of psych

1st step in scientific method

develop a TESTABLE hypothesis
“if______ then____”

2nd step in scientific method

design the study

subjects how many?

3rd step of scientific method

collect the data

4th step scientific method

analyze data and draw conclusions

5th step of scientific method

report the findings

publish it

psychodynamic

behavior guided by hidden motives

unconscious desires 

childhood: how you grew up

Humanistic

importance of human connections and self awareness

free will

relationships

behaviorism

watching other people

copying their actions

reward/punishment

cognative

behaviors are linked to way we think and process

“mental issues are caused by illogical thinking”

biological

genetics

“depression is genetics”

genetic makeup

sociocultural

behaviors are from the group influences and cultural lessons

“sports” “religion”

evolutionary

survival of the fittest causes behaviors and traits

eclectic

combo of everything

broca’s area

unable to speak (frontal lobe)

Werneke’s area

cannot understand hearing (temporal lobe)

motor cortex

frontal lobe (trouble moving)