PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cocktail Party, Prefrontal Cortex, Afterimage

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Topics include: development, sensation and perception, and attention, introduction to consciousness. Voltage gated channels, action potential and propagation. Specific receptors lock and key model. Peripheral somatic and autonomic opponent processing. Medulla oblongata controls heartbeat, breathing and swallowing. Pons also helps to control arousal and works with the cerebellum to coordinate the senses. Cerebellum controls rhythm, timing, and balance but also recently we discovered quite a bit more. Cerebellum is not only being used for physical rhythm, timing, and balance, but also for the mental rhythm, timing, and balance we use in thinking, problem solving and emotional balance. Phineas gage and the frontal lobe especially the pre-frontal cortex. Centre of the higher cognitive, reflective, and rational processes that make us human, i. e. capable of rationality, morality, long term goals, behavioral flexibility, and perhaps even consciousness. Temporal lobe has to do with memory, but also with hearing and with important aspects of understanding language. The occipital is primarily involved in processing vision.