Mindmaps of key words for the unit using online resources as well as notes taken in lectures.
Diagrams with labels and information to revise for exams, not detailed just basic information.
Key word glossary in a table form with the keywords in the order of topic within the week's lectures.
Biopsyc
- This term controls sleeping and - This term controls waking and - Implications in visual
coordinating movements. arousal. and auditory system
and motor
movements
Parasympathetic Nervous Cerebellum
System - This term coordinates fine tune motor movement. It Sympathetic Nervous System
- Division of the is important in conditioning and priming. What are the components of - The part of the
autonomic nervous the forebrain. Autonomic Nervous
system - Hypothalamus, System responds to
- Engaged during a Thalamus Hippocampus Thalamus, cerebral heightened states of
crisis or after actions - The distribution - Plays crucial roles Cortex. arousal.
requiring fight or centre for the in memory,
flight brain. especially spatial
- It receives and memory – the Limbic system
- It conserves energy
relays important memory of the - A set of highly interconnected brain regions. In contrast to
and lowers your
neural information physical layout of the cortex, which processes information about external
level of arousal
- Relays important things in our stimuli
information from environment - It processes information about our internal states such as
Lobes of the Neocortex? blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, and perspiration, as
areas of lower - Important functions
- Brainstem and well as our emotions. (Hypothalamus, Hippocampus,
complexity to in storing and
Cerebral Cortex Amygdala)
higher complexity. retrieving
declarative
memories
Hypothalamus - Difference between Amygdala Partial lobes
- Important in the regulation of the autonomic declarative - The part of the brain - This lobe controls the
nervous system. (Maintaining equilibrium) memories and controls fear and implications for spatial
- Known as three F’s (fighting, fleeing, and mating) procedural emotional memory. awareness and abilities
memories - Part of the limbic - Sense of touch and the
system that plays key appreciation of form
roles in fear, through touch
Temporal lobes Frontal lobes Nervous system excitement and arousal - Sensory combination and
- Lower part of - This lobe lies in the - A communication comprehension
cerebral cortex that forward part of the network - Spatial manipulation of
plays roles in hearing, cerebral cortex. consisting of Corpus Callosum objects or maps.
understanding - It is important for nerve cells, both - Bundle of nerve
language, and the higher inside and outside fibres that connects
memory, fear functioning that is of the brain and the cerebrum’s two
reorganising objects, special to humans spinal cord. hemispheres.
speech, behaviours such as planning
and emotions. and inhibition
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