Biological approach

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What is locilisation of brain function?
certain areas of the brain being responsible for certain functions
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
it is responsible for thinking and creativity
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What is the parietal lobe responsible for?
it recieves sensory information like touch and pain
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What is the occipetal lobe responsible for?
it is for visual processing
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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
it is responsible for memory processing and auditory info (speech)
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Where is broca's area located?
in the frontal lobe
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what is the Broca's area associated with?
speech and production
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where is the Wrenick's area?
In the left temperal lobe
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What is the Broca's area associated with?
understanding langauge
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What is the pre-frontal cortex?
linked to impulsivity, loss of control, immaturity and inability to modify behaviour (aggressive behaviour)
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What is the Amygalda?
Aggressive behaviour in animals and humans. Destruction of it results in lack of fear.
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What is the Hippocampus?
with the prefrontal cortex may be responsible for aggressive behaviour
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What is the Angular gyrus?
damage to this would deficit verbal and arithmetic abilities
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What is the Corpus callosum?
dysfunction related to a predisposition to violence
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What is the Right hemisphere?
dominance of right hemisphere = less regulation of the left, negative emotipns and bad emotinal expression
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What is the Limbic system?
a mix of all the before which affects emotion, learning, memory and attention
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Enviroment of evalutionary adaptiveness (EEA)
teh enviroment that has been adapted to
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clear variables
measured, tracked and examined
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if we know what predetermines our behaviour who are we able to treat people?
people with abnormal behaviour
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