Brain Functions and Structures

Front

This part of the brain is associated with the flight or fight response, aggression, and the creation of emotional memories.

Back

Amygdala

Front

Role of the hippocampus

Back

To convert short-term episodic and declarative memory into long-term memory. It also plays a role in the creation and storage of spatial memory.

Front

The process by which neural connections that are not used are discarded.

Back

Neural or Synaptic pruning

Front

In Harris and Fiske’s study of the brain’s reaction to out-groups, which part of the brain was activated when participants viewed homeless people?

Back

The insula gyrus – the part of the brain where disgust responses are localized.

Front

The insula gyrus – the part of the brain where disgust responses are localized.

Back

Long-term potentiation