PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Hemispatial Neglect

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Curtis

Document Summary

Alcohol messes with the frontal lobe that is why you do and say things you don"t mean. Broca"s aphasia: damage: broca area of your brain (left hemisphere) Speech production; can not produce sentences: wernicke"s aphasia, damage: wernicke area of your brain (left hemisphere) Language comprehension; can not put meaning to words and phrases. Patient believes they are making sense but are not. If you point it out they will be able to see it. Face blindness; see ne but can not recognize human faces. Right brain, left eye: dot in center, word candy to the left, word car to the right. Patient can"t see the word candy to the left but with left hand and eyes closed (so the left brain doesn"t interfere) can draw it. Right- art/creativity, imagination, intuition, insight, music, 3d, left-hand control. Left- language, logic, science, math, written, numbers skills, right-hand control.