PSYC 108- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
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Mind and physical are two aspects talking about the same thing. Everything considered as the mind can be explained by physical brain. Size of skull tells you about size of brain for each part. Cognition = process by which sensory input is transformed, reduced, Redu(cid:272)tio(cid:374)is(cid:373: brai(cid:374) vs. mi(cid:374)d, ideas a(cid:271)out the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) elaborated, stored, recovered, and used, brai(cid:374) i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)g, neuros(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e vs. cog(cid:374)itive psy(cid:272)hology. How many neurons/brain region can you see. Cog(cid:374)itive psy(cid:272)hology is looki(cid:374)g at (cid:271)rai(cid:374) fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Slices of the brain: horizontal, horizontal slice, also called: axial or transverse, sagittal, cut between the eyes, coronal, cut parallel to front of face, brain development, 6 divisions of cns in embryo. Forebrain: telencephalon, diencephalon, midbrain, mesencephalon, hindbrain, metencephalon, medulla. Starts as fluid-filled neural tube: 3 enlargements become hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain, neural tube become spine, 2 months in subdivisions form. Fluid filled chamber becomes ventricle: brain organization, hindbrain, cerebellum, pons, medulla oblongata, midbrain.
