Psych - AP Psych Brain Anatomy/Function

This part of the body regulates how fast your heart is beating when you are on a run

• Pons
• Medulla 
• Cerebellum
• Hypothalamus

Receives sensory information and relays it to the proper part of brain for further processing

• Hypothalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Cerebellum
• Thalamus

Where the pleasure centers of the brain are located...also controls Endocrine System

• Amygdala
• Pons
• Hippocampus
• Hypothalamus

Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information

• Brain stem
• Cerebral Cortex
• Corpus Callosum
• Cerebellum

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Receives sensory input for touch and body position to help you in Karate

• Parietal Lobe
• Frontal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Controls motivational behaviors, including: feeding, fight-flight response

• Hippocampus
• Amygdala
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus

This part of the brain is mapped & can activate voluntary movement

•  motor cortex
•  somatosensory cortex
• visual cortex
• gustatory cortex

This part of your brain can be represented by Homunculus

• motor cortex
• somatosensory cortex
• visual cortex
• gustatory cortex

This part of your brain allows you to hear Mr. Dickson say, "It's a great day in America."

• frontal
• temporal
• occipital
• parietal