Final Study Guide for Psychology

Lobe that is involved in sensing touch, as well as spatial processing, language, and memory.

• frontal
• temporal
• parietal
• occipital

Coordinates muscle movements and is important to learning and performing skilled movements.

• hypothalamus
• thalamus
• cerebellum
• cerebrum

Lobe that understands words and language. Also involved in visual memory.

• occipital
• temporal
• frontal
• parietal

Controls behaviors (hunger, thirst, sleep, body temperature) through the release of hormones.

• hypothalamus
• thalamus
• adrenal glands
• pineal gland

Involved in emotional responses like recognizing facial expressions of fear.

• amygdala
• basal ganglia
• brainstem
• medulla oblongata

Role in controlling sleep, respiratory function, hearing, as well as motor control and touch in the region of the face.

• midbrain
• brainstem
• pons
• medula oblongata

Controls cardiac and respiratory function.

• midbrain
• pons
• brainstem
• medulla oblongata

Lobe that interprets vision (visual perception).

• parietal
• temporal
• frontal
• occipital 

Controls all endocrine glands and is primary hormone secreting structure in the brain.  Controls the hypothalamus.

• pituitary gland
• pineal gland
• amygdala
• thalamus

Hemisphere that is associated with Verbal and Mathematical abilities

• Left Hemisphere
• Right Hemisphere