PSY 102 Midterm: Psychology Midterm #1 Review
13 Feb 2017
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* know cerebral cortex, frontal/parietal/temporal/occipital (location and what it does) * motor is part of frontal lobe for motor functions, sensory is part of frontal for touch. * temporal for hearing and understanding language and memories. * frontal at front, parietal behind frontal, temporal at sides, occipital at back. * glutamate, gaba, acetylcholine, dopamine and seratonin (monoamines), endorphins) * corpus callosum transfers information between the two hemispheres. * prune neurons that are no longer helpful. * long term potentiation is building up your information in order to be able to access it from many different locations within your neurons. * cns is the brain and the spinal cord, pns is somatic (voluntary) and autonomic (involuntary), sympathetic (arouses) and parasympathetic (de-arouses) * endocrine system involves hormones which differ from neurotransmitters in the fact that they last longer and ow through the bloodstream to affect our moods.
