PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Harry Harlow, Deductive Reasoning
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Covers both lecture and readings (usually about 50/50) Look on blackboard to find out which room exam will be written in (based on last names) Each cerebral hemisphere has four lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital) Imagine that the bottom of your left foot is itchy. Which part of your brain should you blame for this uncomfortable sensation: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe. What is the corpus callosum is severed?- loss of connection between the two hemispheres in the brain. Two half brains, each with its own perceptions, thoughts and consciousness. Images from left visual field got to he right hemisphere (and vice versa); your left hemisphere controls your right hand (vice versa) The left hemisphere is the (cid:498)vocal(cid:499) hemisphere it has control over speech. The right hemisphere has its own specialties (eg. Optic chiasm- when the right eye sees is processed by the left hemisphere of the brain.
