[PSY 20000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (17 pages long!)
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Lecture 2: the brain: the brain is the source of cognition unlike other organs. Ex bayonet to the skull and nothing changed in a person: brain is made up of the forebrain (cortex) and the hindbrain (brain stem). Hindbrain has the limbic lobe (sexual behavior, emotional behavior, and memory), the hypothalamus (appetite, thirst, temperature, hormones), Thalamus (sensory gateway, except smell) and the cerebellum (muscle control, learning) Contralateral processing: processing in the brain is done on the opposite side of your organs. Action happening on the right side of the body is controlled by the left side of the brain and vice versa: neural fibers from the eye cross on way to cortex. For the eyes, it is field of view which overlap creating binocular visual field. Since they overlap, the blind spot for each eye is not obvious: brain hemispheres are connected by a mass of neural fibers called the corpus callosum. There are observable effects of the corpus callosum.
