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| Where in the brain is the primary motor center |
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| where in the brain is the primary sensory center |
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| "Each area of the brain is contralateral, bilateral or both" |
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| What connects the two hemispheres of the brain |
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| corpus callosum and anterior commisure |
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| What three regions make up the association cortex |
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| 1.Parietal/occipital/temporal; 2.Prefrontal; 3.Limbic |
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| What skills are associated with the parietal/occipital/temporal region |
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| "symbolic communication (speech, read, write)" |
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| what skills are associated with the prefrontal region |
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| motor planning and emotion |
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| what skills are associated with the limbic region |
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| "emotion, memory, and learning" |
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| What actually defines the dominant cortical hemisphere |
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| the location of the speech center |
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| T/F ~85% of the population are left side dominant |
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| What is an accurate way to detect the dominant hemisphere |
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| What traits are associated with the left side of the brain |
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| "verbal expression, logical thinking, analytical ability, liguistics, math" |
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| what traits are associated with the rights side of the brain |
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| "non-verbal expression, visual/spatial relations, synthetic thought, initiative, music appreciation" |
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| "What is the term used to ""backup"" regions that can take over a task if the primary region is damaged" |
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| What allows us to recover some function following cortical damage |
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| Is plasticity greater in children or adults |
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| what are the 3 groups of disorders of association cortex |
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| "apraxias, agnosias, aphasias" |
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| inability to perform a willed movement |
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| where is the damaged area of the brain with apraxia |
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| inability to correctly identify common items |
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| inability to recognize things by sights (not knowing a friends from sight but recognize the voice) |
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| inability to recognize things by touch |
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| ignore contralateral half of the body (other half doesn't exist to person) |
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| "is autotopagnosia a subset of apraxia, astereognosis (agnosia), or aphasia" |
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| do not recognize how time works |
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| "disruption of symbolic communication (hearing, speaking, reading, writing)" |
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| what are 2 key coordinating regions of the speech center related to aphasias |
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| expressive (Broca's) aphasia; receptive (Wernicke's) aphasia |
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| explain expressive (Broca's) aphasia |
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| garbled words - stutter-like to mutism |
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| explain receptive (Wernicke's) aphasia |
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| Word substitutions and incoherency |
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| Name 4 other common forms of aphasia |
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| "Agraphia, alexia, dyslexia, echolalia" |
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| letter/word/symbol reversals and inversions |
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| "cann't understand what they hear (write down question, write response and then read it aloud)" |
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| what is it called when the two hemispheres can't communicate with eachother |
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| disconnection syndrome (cut corpus callosum) |
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| Who is the dumbest person on Earth? |
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| Who is also known as the garbage man? |
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| adaptive change in behavior caused by experience |
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| list the levels of learning from lowest to highest |
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| Non-assiciative; associative; complex; conceptualization |
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| list two examples of non-associative learning |
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| habituation and sensitization |
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| list two examples of assiciative learning |
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| classical conditioning (pavlov-dog); operant conditioning |
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| list three examples of complex learning |
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| imprinting; latent; vicarious |
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| explain conceptualization learning |
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| enter info constantly into small capacity buffer (short term) until can save in large capacity (long term) |
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| what must be present in order to learn |
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| "input, short term, long term, recall, LEARNING" |
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| what sensation provides a strong ability to remember |
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| sense of smell; from olfactory |
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| How can action potentials continue to be regenerated even when the input is removed (eyes closed) |
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| define reverberating circuit |
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| sequence of neurons which innervate each other leading back to the initial neuron (A-B-C-A) |
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| where are loops of neurons located |
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| "hippocampus, dorsomedial thalamus, temporal lobe of the cortex" |
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| loss of the ability to convert transient memory into long-term memory is known as |
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| what other structures are also involved in converting short to long term memories |
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| how can you damage mammillary bodies |
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| untreated alcoholism can lead to what disease |
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| loss of previously stored memories is known as |
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| what other disease can exhibit anterograde amnesia |
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| reverberating action potentials to store info to long-term memory involves what process |
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| facilitation using plasticity |
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| Long term potentiation (LTP) is |
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| subsequent stimuli yield a greater response after the conditioning stimulus |
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| describe 3 physical alterations that occur during LTP |
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| 1. presynaptic terminals envelope dendrite spines 2. new dendritic spines form on post-synaptic neurons 3. new receptor and effector proteins are in post-synaptic membrane |
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| what is the benefit of new receptor and effector proteins being in the post-synaptic membrane |
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| is makes release of neurotransmitter more effective |
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