U of U Psychology 1010 Exam 1 (100% correct and graded A+)

Central Nervous System - Answer-The brain and spinal cord Peripheral Nervous System - Answer-Links the CNS with the body's sensory receptors, muscles, and glands Somatic Nervous System - Answer-Enables voluntary control of muscles Automatic Nervous System - Answer-Controls the glands and muscles of internal organs. Functions non-conciously Sympathetic Nervous System - Answer-Part of the automatic nervous system. It arouses and expends energy Parasympathetic Nervous System - Answer-Part of the automatic nervous system. It calms and conserves energy Adrenal gland - Answer-Produces epinephrine and nor-epinephrine for a flight or fight response Pituitary gland - Answer-Master gland that regulates other glands Thyroid gland - Answer-controls metabolism Pancreas - Answer-regulates blood glucose levels Testes and ovaries - Answer-regulates the production of testosterone or estrogen frontal lobe - Answer-What lobe is the arrow pointing at? occipital lobe - Answer-What lobe is the arrow pointing at?parietal lobe - Answer-What lobe is the arrow pointing at? temporal lobe - Answer-What lobe is the arrow pointing at? medulla - Answer-part of the brain stem that controls heartbeat and breathing pons - Answer-part of the brain stem that coordinates movement thalamus - Answer-routes sensory information to other brain areas cerebellum - Answer-nonverbal learning and memory, judging time, modulating emotions, discriminating textures, and coordinating voluntary movement hippocampus - Answer-critical to the formation of memories amygdala - Answer-helps to process emotions, particularly emotion and fear hypothalamus - Answer-monitors the body's internal states and sends messages to the endocrine system association areas - Answer-coordinate and integrate information pre-frontal cortex - Answer-used in judgement, planning, personality, voluntary attention, and inhibitory control corpus callosum - Answer-band of neurons that connect the right and left hemispheres left hemisphere - Answer-language, calculations, literal interpretations