Psych Unit 4 Exam (Biological Bases of Behavior)

Freud Took Off his Pants

Frontal, Temporal, Occipital, Parietal

processes visual information

Processes sensory information…

Use a “piranha” fish as your mnemonic. The piranha bites you on the top of the head (where the parietal lobe is located). That’s a sensation the parietal lobe would process.

where complex thinking occurs…

Use “front door” as your mnemonic. Put the front door on your forehead and put Einstein (complex thinker) behind the door.

where auditory processing occurs…

Use “tempo” as your mnemonic and picture a metronome above your ear (where the temporal lobe is located)

HATCH

Hippocampus, Amygdala, Thalamus, Cerebellum, Hypothalamus

Involved in memory.

Involved in your fear responses

relays information from the body to different areas of the brain for processing…

Picture Hal and Amos as traffic cops.

Involved in helping you maintain balance.

regulates many of the body’s metabolic processes, thirst, hunger and body temperature.

Pavlov’s Really Frickin’ Mad

Pons, Reticular Formation, Medulla

the part of the brain that regulates waking and relaxing.

involved in motivation and alertness.

regulates the autonomic activity of the heart and lungs.

Damn! Skinner Ate Mice?? Not Very Smart

Dendrites, Soma, Axon, Myelin Sheath, Nodes of Ranvier, Synaptic Vesicles, Synapse

Signals from muscles and other neurons enter the neuron through branches called dendrites.

the cell body of the neuron...

Use “ma” or “someone’s ma” as your mnemonic. Picture your mother inside the cell body.

extends out from the soma.

protects the axon and speed the signal down the axon.

found at the end of the axon (which is sometimes called the terminal button). They contain the neurotransmitters.

found at the end of the axon. It is the space between one neuron and another or between one neuron and a muscle.

When the neuron is in its resting state the majority of the ions inside the neuron are negatively charged and the majority of the ions outside the neuron are positively charged.

DASE

Dopamine, Acetylcholine, Serotonin, Endorphins

Low levels of this in the brain are associated with depression.

Involved in helping you contract your muscles.

Associated with Parkinson’s disease.

Associated with schizophrenia.

involved in blocking pain sensations and in producing “runner’s high”.

Imagine a Texas hat on your head which is covering the outermost part of your brain – the cor"tex".

secretes melatonin.

connects the two hemispheres, and it is through the corpus callosum that the two hemispheres communicate.

Thus, the corPLUS CalloSUM and you could also picture “corpus CALL SOMEONE”.

the area of the brain responsible for producing speech. If it is damaged, you can understand what someone says, but your speech is disjointed.

responsible for the comprehension of speech. If you have an aphasia in this area of the brain you are unable to understand and respond to what people are saying to you.

Have an inhibitory effect in neurotransmitters

Have an excitatory effect in neurotransmitters