PSY 113 Study Guide - Final Guide: Detection Theory, Unconditional Positive Regard, Frontal Lobe
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Also concerned with the behavior of groups and social relationships between and among people: personality psychologists: study the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that define an individual"s personal style of interacting with the world. Sensory skills: efferent- carry signals from the c. n. s to body. " motor skills: somatic nervous system, voluntary, conveys sensory info to the c. n. s and sends motor messages to muscles, autonomic nervous system, involuntary, controls basic life functions breathing, heartbeat, digestion, response to stress, sympathetic. Calms body to conserve energy and restore equilibrium- rest period: the brain, 4 lobes. Orients eye and body movements to visual and auditory stimuli. Limbic system: interconnected group of structures: hippocampus: memory, amygdala: emotion, cerebral cortex: complex behaviors and high mental processes, divided into four lobes (frontal, occipital, parietal, temporal, split brain research. Provides info on what functions the 2 hemispheres have. Left: verbal and analytical functions, controls right side.
