PSYC 100 Final: PSYCH100_Week 6

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Topic 1: the central nervous system: describe how the structure of the central nervous system influences behavior. Topic 2: the brain: describe the basic brain structures and their functions. Topic 3: brain structure and plasticity: explain the concept of cortical lateralization of function, explain the concept of brain plasticity. Equipotential: a concept that suggests that every bit of the brain does the same sort of thing in the same way without specialization (false) Broca"s aphasia: a language disorder resulting from brain damage in which the primary difficulty is with producing language (speaking) rather than understanding language. Wernicke"s aphasia: a deficit in speech comprehension without a loss in speech production (damage is to the left side of the (cid:271)(cid:396)ai(cid:374) (cid:271)ut (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:272)lose(cid:396) to the (cid:271)a(cid:272)k of the (cid:271)(cid:396)ai(cid:374) tha(cid:374) sho(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) patie(cid:374)ts (cid:449)ith b(cid:396)o(cid:272)a"s aphasia(cid:895) Independent variable: variable that changes and has some effect on the dependent variable in an experiment.