PSY 1101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Latrodectus, Long-Term Memory, Hindbrain

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

50 million to 1 hundred billion neurons. Orientation - medial-lateral (side of the head) Anterior-posterior aspects of the brain (ant = front, post = back) Coronal - can see side to side, but no long anterior and posterior. Sagittal - from front to back, allow you to see superior, anterior and posterior but not side to side. Viewing macrostructures with the human eye or microstructures with a microscope. Advantage: provides high resolution images of the human brain. Problems: provides an image of the structures but does not indicate their functions - resolution is limited (cannot see single cells) Provides only a static view of the brain. Does not provide an image of the active brain. Observing functions lost because of brain injury (trauma, stroke, tumours) Ex - if you can"t speak, maybe that part of the brain has been damaged. Problem: human brain injuries are often widespread and not highly specific.