Absorber has the ability to remember what most people could never remember. Anything he has ever experienced‚ can be remembered in great detail. Amygdala An almond shaped mass of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain. It is a limbic system structure that is involved in many of our emotions and motivations‚ particularly those that are related to survival. The fight or flight reaction. Amygda-woman Amygda
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ROLE OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN LEARNING AND MEMORY – Martinez and Kesner (1991) Aim: determining the role of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine on memory Method: * Rats were trained to go through a maze and get to the end‚ where they received food * Researcher injected one group of rats with scopolamine (blocks acetylcholine receptor sites thus decreasing available acetylcholine) * Injected second group of rats with physostigmine (blocks the production of cholinesterase – cholinesterase
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Textbook Study Notes CHAPTER 1 – INTRO TO COG PSYCH Cognitive Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind The Mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception‚ attention‚ memory‚ emotions‚ language‚ thinking and reasoning. It is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Donder’s Pioneering Experiment He was interested in determining how long it takes a person to make a decision
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effects. A study examining thirteen (13) areas of the brain (frontal lobe‚ parietal lobe‚ temporal lobe‚ occipital lobe‚ basal ganglia‚ thalamus‚ limbic system‚ midbrain‚ cerebellum‚ insular‚ anterior cingulated gyrus‚ posterior cingulated gyrus‚ and paracentral) during intoxication showed decreased absolute metabolism for all thirteen (13) areas. However‚ there were three (3) areas which showed the greatest affect. Those were the occipital lobe‚ which controls vision‚ the cerebellum cortex which has
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Broca’s area‚ located in the inferior frontal gyrus‚ is responsible for the construction of verbal language it is evident that the reduction in blood flow‚ caused by the LMCA occlusion‚ lead to damage in the Broca’s area. Williams et al (2010) point out that such damage to this area can lead to significant impairment to communication. However‚ there is another language centre in the brain: the Wernicke’s area‚ located in the superior posterior temporal lobe. Both the Wernicke’s and Broca’s area are
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Watching Sensation and Perception on Discovery Psychology with Philip Zimbardo greatly enforced material that we have learned in class. As the film begins some questions are posed such as how is our brain tricked by visual illusions and what makes a star quarterback miss an easy pass? These questions and many more where discussed and answered throughout the film. The first explanation given as to why our brain might be tricked by the world around us is because of the limitations to our sensation
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memory‚ attention‚ language‚ and problem solving. temporal lobe = responsible foe vision‚ memory‚ language‚ hearing‚ learning frontal lobe = responsible for decision making ‚ problem solving‚ control behavior and emotions parietal lobe = responsible for sensory information from the body‚ also where letters are formed‚ putting things in order and spatial awareness occipital lobe = responsible for processing information related to vision cerebrum lobe = biggest part of the Brain its role is memory
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known as lobes; these control the different functions such as: Frontal Lobe Planning and organising actions‚ learning tasks‚ initiating and stopping regular behaviour‚ abstract thought‚ logic‚ language and personality. Parietal Lobe Remembering sequences of actions‚ body sense(e.g. sensing where one limb is in relation to the rest of the body)‚ sentence construction‚ calculation‚ interpreting visual information received from the occipital lobe and locating objects. Occipital Lobe Processing
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Over the past four years‚ the rate of autism diagnosed has increased over 30%. Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder in which the diagnosed exhibit social and behavioral deficits. Since autism is a life-long impairment‚ researchers are attempting to rapidly find the causes in the hope to find a cure. It is theorized that prenatal hormone exposure could potentially result in ASD. Therefore‚ the prenatal hormones estradiol and dihydrotestosterone were subcutaneously injected into
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the Brain Cognitive functions derive from the area of the brain known as the cerebrum. The cerebrum is also known as the cerebral cortex and comprises the majority of the brain ’s mass. It consists of four areas known as the frontal‚ temporal‚ parietal‚ and occipital lobes. Each area is responsible for a specific
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