PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confabulation, Hindbrain, Retina

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ronald Sheese

Document Summary

We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know. Four divisions: mind-body, left-right: the human brain has two separate hemispheres joined by a large bundle of nerves, the corpus callosum (it allows the two halves of the brain to communicate and coordinate their activity. The right hemisphere is in this respect the left"s mirror image, taking in information from the left half of the world and controlling movement on the left side of the body. The left hemisphere is specialized for language processing and analytical tasks. In visual tasks, it is better at noticing details. The right hemisphere is better at processing patterns in space, including that all-important pattern, the face. This finding, that people will readily fabricate reasons to explain their own behavior, is called.