Psychology Chapter 3
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| Language, logic, facts, analytic thought, math | Left hemisphere |
| Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body | Contralateral control |
| Surgery performed to cut corpus callosum | Split brain surgery |
| Located in parietal lobe. Makes sense of information given by touch, taste, smell and sound | Sensory cortex |
| Located in left hemisphere in the frontal lobe and is responsible for pronunciation & grammar | Broca's area |
| Measures brain waves/electrical activity using individual electrodes placed on a persons scalp | Electroencephalogram EEG |
| X-ray pictures of structure | Cat scan |
| Located in the middle of the brain and is associated with fighting, feeding, fleeing and reproductive behavior | Midbrain/limbic system |
| Located in center of the brain. Relay center for the senses and passes along to cerebral cortex | Thalamus |
| Greek for seahorse. Bends around temporal lobe. Learning, formation and creation of memories | Hippocampus |
| Important for bodily activities essential to survival such as changes in heartbeat and breathing, focusing of attention and patterns of arousal (sleeping versus walking) | The brainstem or hindbrain |