PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thyroid, Adrenal Gland, Pituitary Gland
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Chemicals synthesized by the endocrine glands and secreted in the bloodstream. Brain lesion- experimentally destroys braine tissue to study animal behaviors after such destruction. Pons- helps control/regulate sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder function, hearing, equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions, facial sensation, and posture. Reticular formation- regulates sleep, wakefulness, and levels of arousal. Part of it uses light cures to regulate sleep-wake cycles. Rats cross an electri ed grid for self stimulation, when electrodes are placed in the reward (hypothalamus) center. When the limbic system is manipulated rat will navigate elds or climb up a tree pict. Located at the tip of each side of the hippocampus. Attaches signi cance to events associated with fear, punishment or reward. Outer covering of two hemispheres of the brain. Responsible for the most complex aspects of perception, emotion, movement, and thought cerebral lobes. Frontal- planning, judgement, memory, reasoning, abstract thinking, movement (motor cortex) Located at the front of the parietal lobe.
