Psychology Homework Solutions

Explanation of visual, aditory and tactile agnosia. Theories, models, symptoms, causes and terms all discussed.

What is agnosia? What are the main aspects of visual (apperceptive & associative), auditory and tactile agnosias? What models have been developed to explain agnosias and what explanations are there for prosopagnosia?

Understanding the different regions of the brain: the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes.

What are the different regions of the brain? What do the 4 different lobes do?

Temporal lobe function, auditory cortex and association areas, hippocampus and amygdala regions.

What does the temporal lobe control? What affcets will damage to this area of the brain have?

The Limbic System, Amygdala, Hippocampus and what happends when such structures are damaged.

What is the limbic system? What does it control and what happends when sections are damaged?

Frontal lobe functions, dysfunctions and tests.

What do the frontal lobes do? What do they control? What happends if they are damaged?

Genetics of Schizophrenia: Article (20 pages) and bibliography lists 187 sources.

I am doing an assignment about the genetics of Schizophrenia. Could you provide me with one article, including the bibliography as a starting point?

Spinal Cord Injury and Sensory Information Processing

This question has three small parts - I have answered (a) okay I think, but am really stuck on (b) and (c. Please help! Thanks! "Patient A has a tumour located on the thoracic spinal cord at the level of T3 and shows differences in the way sensory information in his legs and lower trunk is processed. This mainly invovles alte ...continues

Brain-Behavior Relationships...PREFRONTAL CORTEX

Deficits associated with Lesions of the Prefrontal cortex range from minor lesions to more extensive lesions. (a) List the deficits associated with lesions in different parts of the brain (i.e., Medial Orbital Lesions, Lateral Dorsal Lesions, Left Hemisphere Prefrontal Lesions, Right Hemisphere Prefrontal Lesions, Very severe L ...continues

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