CJ 3400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Triune Brain, Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 3400
• Professor: Dr.Matthew Robinson

Document Summary

The brain and behavior (chapter 5: level of analysis: organ, organs are part of organisms, organs have specialized functions, most important, especially for behavior, is the brain. Emotion and/or thought: brain structure and process. Brain can be divided into the human triune brain : reptilian brain: survival, paleo-mammalian brain: caveman brain/emotion, neo-mammalian brain: rational. Executive functions (human frontal lobe: fore thought, concentration, abstract reasoning, behavioral inhibition, programming and planning, goal-oriented behaviors, learning from experience, interpreting social cues, problem solving, attention, verbal ability, generating alternate socially adaptive behavioral responses. Brain can also be divided into: cortex (outer layer, sub-cortex (inner layer) Cerebrum: largest portion of the cortex; wrinkled mass in two hemispheres. Divided into four lobes: frontal lobe: thought, intellect, associations, planning, intent, inhibition/self-control, parietal lobe: works with frontal lobe, movement, sensation, occipital lobe: vision, abstract concepts, temporal lobe: hearing, learning/memory, autonomic responses, regulation of hormones, emotion, aggression. The parts most important for criminal behavior are the frontal and temporal lobes.