PSY 2012 Lecture 6: PSY 2012 Chapter 3 States of Conciousness
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Master area control and information processing center divided into left and right halves. Left: controls right side of body; language sounds that are related to language speech, writing, arithmetic, movements. Right: control left side of the body; emotion: musical sounds, sense of direction, gender differenced: less lateralized in females than males. Parietal lobe: body senses, spacial location, and attention. Occipital lobe: visual information; eyes in the back of the head . Primary auditory area: what your perceiving to hear. Primary motor cortex: send info to rest of the body. Example: ngers are easily controlled, toes are not. Association areas: areas of the cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions. Aphasia: impaired use of language understand what saying but can"t speak. Broca"s area: directs muscle movements involved in speech: muscle movements involved in speech, wernicke"s area: involved in language comprehension remembering names; memory.
