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pituitary gland
pituitary gland - master gland that controls hormones from other
glands
hormones - chemicals messengers that are produced in one kind
of tissue, travel in bloodstream and
affect the functions of another tissue including brain
endocrine system - system with glands and the hormones they
produce
cerebral cortex - outer covering of brain...involved in motor,
cognitive, and sensory processes...has two
hemispheres and four regions (lobes)
frontal lobe - just behind forehead...coordinates movement,
involved in higher level thinking like planning or
predicting the consequences of behaviors
Broca's area - in frontal lobe, if damaged person can understand
speech but can only speak slowly
Wernicke's area - in frontal lobe, if damaged can speak but will
speak in nonsensical ways
parietal lobes - at top of head, behind frontal lobes...involved in
sense of touch...allow us to keep tabs of where
our hands and feet are
temporal lobes - involved in hearing
occipital lobes - at base of skull, involved in vision
Chapter 4
sensation - transforming energy from stimuli outside us into
neural energy for perception
perception - mentally creating an image of the outside world
psychophysics - area of psychology that addresses the topic of
sensation
feature detectors - neuron that might respond to a line tilted at a
certain angle
perceptual sets - predispositions to perceive one thing and not
another
bottom up - information processing that is from simple sensory
receptors to more complex neural
networks
top down - from expectations and motives down to raw sensory
data