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- Temporal lobe
- speech, hearing, visual information processing
- Neurons
- Communication system of the brain, that uses electrical currents(action potentials) and chemicals(neurotransmitters) to send information
- Parietal lobe
- sense of touch and body movement
- What is behaviorism?
- It is the study of overt,observable behavior.
- What is a neuron made up of?
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1. axon-fiber which carriers information away from the neuron
2. soma-main body of the neuron
3. dendrite-receives incoming information
4. synapse-space between neurons through which neurotransmitters flow - Who is John B. Watson?
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He is the founder of behaviorism. He rejected the idea of study thoughts and conscious experiences (believed these to be private thoughts)
- Frontal lobe
- memory, movement, speech
- The brain is made up of what three basic parts?
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1. hindbrain-cerebellum, medulla, reticular formation
2. midbraind-regulates and transmits signals to other parts of the brain
3. forebrain-cerebral cortex, thalamus, hypothalamus, corpus callosum and limbic system - Occipital lobe
- visual sense
- What are the two parts of the peripheral nevous system?
- The somatic n.s., which is all voluntary and conscious movements, and the autonomic n.s., which is vital and automatic functions. The autonomic n.s. has two sub nervous systems: the sympathetic, the arousal system which activates emergancy responses(fight or flight) and the parasympathetic which regulates normal body functions(brings the body back after a fight or flight momement)
- Association cortex
- thinking and sensory processes
- The nervous system is made up of what two parts?
- The central nervous system, which consist the brain and spinal cord, and the peripheral nevour system, which is made up of everything else.
- The Endocrine System
- a series of glands, including the piuitary galnd, which are responsible for the distribution of hormones throughout the body.