AQA psychology revision table, based on advanced information topics (so some missing). Summary of all A01 content (1st column), supporting studies (2nd column) and evaluation/A03 points (3rd column), great for summarising content revision and structuring 16 mark essays
A01:
LOCALISATION OF BRAIN FUNCTION: A03 evidence:
Support from stroke victims as loss of function A03: evaluation
Undermined by idea of functional recovery,
only in some areas neural reorganisation and recruitment of
Localisation is the idea that each section of the
homologous areas, brain can transfer functions
brain is responsible for a different function Supported by Broca’s aphasia patients wo have to undamaged areas.
an understanding of language but are unable to
Frontal lobe – motor cortex localised for motor
produce speech. Lashley rat study found that it is more
function and movement, Broca’s area localised
important how much of brain cortex is lost, not
for speech production, pre-frontal cortex Raine’s research supports pre-frontal cortex as what areas it is lost from, suggesting size of
responsible for decision making and impulse those with antisocial personality disorder were brain matter plays more of a role in function
control found to have a smaller pre-frontal cortex, than where each function occurs.
where decisions are made. Also found damage
Temporal lobe – Wernicker’s area responsible
to amygdala resulted in likelihood to be Lashley found that higher order functions use
for understanding language, hippocampus
criminal. all of the brain rather than a localised section.
responsible for episodic memory and
navigation, amygdala responsible for emotions Support from Wernicker’s aphasia patients who Tulving’s PET scans study suggests that
have no problem producing speech but there is different areas of the brain will be used when
Cerebellum – responsible for movement and
no understanding of their own or others asking a question to different people,
balance
language. depending on their experience, suggesting
Motor cortex localisation is not fixed.
Somatosensory Maguire study supports hippocampus localising
Broca’s area
Function navigation skills as found taxi driver’s
hippocampus to grow when studying the
knowledge.
Clive wearing supports Hippocampus
controlling episodic memory as damage to
hippocampus didn’t affect other types of
memory.
Kuhn found in video game study that
Auditory
Wernicker’s area cerebellum was responsible for movement,
Visual
hippocampus responsible for navigation and
motor cortex responsible for spatial motor skills
, A01:
LATERALISATION OF BRAIN FUNCTION: A03 evidence:
Sperry studied split-brain patients. A03:
Turk evaluation
studied patient JW who after a split-brain
operation was able to develop the ability to
Lateralisation of brain function is the idea that Found that if a picture was shown in their right describe something shown to either visual field,
some functions are dominant in left visual field (RVF) and processed in left suggesting lateralisation is not fixed due to
hemisphere, and some are dominant in right hemisphere (LH), the patient could describe it functional recovery.
hemisphere. but if shown to left visual field (LVF) and
processed in right hemisphere (RH) the patients Age impacts lateralisation, lateralisation
Language is lateralised in the left hemisphere
could not describe it. This is evidence for deteriorates as cognitive functioning
Facial recognition is lateralised in the right language being lateralised in the left deteriorates meaning as you get older the brain
hemisphere hemisphere. works more in harmony.
Creativity and visual motor skills are lateralised Showed a face to RVF and processed in LH the Sperry’s sample size of 11 severely epileptic
in the right hemisphere patient could describe the face but not pick it patients is small meaning that his findings are
out of a line-up. When showed face in LVF and difficult to generalise more widely, effecting the
processed in RH, patient claimed to have not validity of results.
seen a face, yet when asked to select a face
from a line-up consistently picked the face they
do not acknowledge seeing. Evidence for facial
recognition being lateralised in right
hemisphere.
Showed picture of a house to RVF processed in
LH, could describe house but drawing was
inaccurate. When showed to LVF processed in
RH, could not describe/didn’t see house but
when asked to draw a picture produced an
accurate recreation. Evidence that creativity
and visual motor skills are lateralised in right
hemisphere.
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