The Cerebrum

First, there is six major parts of the brain. Brain stems takes care of all the body jobs you never think about, although it's only three inches long. The cerebrum is the largest and smallest parts of your brain. The outer layer is called the cerebral cortex.The text states, the left hemisphere controls the right side of your body, and the right hemisphere controls your left side. When you eat, the cerebellum coordinates your hand to make sure that your fork goes into your mouth and not into your ear. Deep inside the cerebellum is the thalamus. The thalamus lets you forget information that's not important. Below the thalamus is the hypothalamus. This bundle of nerves controls your emotions.

After I received my license, I started to go through the refinement stage and experiment with driving different ways to drive and I started experimented with driving vehicles. After I finished experimenting came the mastery stage, I started helping and teaching other people how to drive. I helped my best friend by letting him drive my car to get more experience before taking his on the road test. Thanks to me for helping him with driving he too received his driver's license. Another thing I learned from Smilkstein's research is that emotions affect learning. What she means by that is the way we are feeling can have an effect on the way we learn. For example, one night I was getting ready to study for a big test that I had to take the next day. Before I started to study, I got into an argument with my girlfriend at the time. Due to the argument, I couldn't focus on studying because my mind was focused on her and what we were fussing about instead of the test material. I was upset; therefore, I was unable to study because my emotions effect had taken over my mind. Another time I knew my emotions took over my mind was when my nephew passed away. I knew that I was not going to be able to focus on anything important coming up. Just thinking about him turned my mood into a sad mood and I was unable to complete my work.

Have you ever wondered how the brain develops while we learn? Dr. Rita Smilkstein’s research on The Natural Human Learning Process was interesting. I now know the parts of the brain and how they work. I know now how we learn and how emotions have an impact on how we learn. As college students, we need to understand how our brains work and how emotions can help us learn successfully, since all college students should want to become successful people in their lives during college and throughout their lives.

Emotions are used in everyday life, whether it be just a simple smile that makes happiness disperse in your brain, or a death of a loved one that causes sadness. The basic emotions are joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt. The way we see emotion in ourselves and others can be very complex because we sometimes assume they feel a certain way just based on their actions or even facial expressions. When emotion is discussed in psychological terms, it is not based on one thing, instead it’s a mix of bodily arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experience. Many theories try to explain how emotion works.

The brain has many parts with different functions that have an effect on the entire body.

As we all know, the brain controls everything we do, say, feel and think. It keeps us alive through circulation, breathing, digestion, hormones, and the immune system. Through the brain, we experience emotion and are able to express ourselves.

The Amygdala: The Amygdala is a large part of the Cerebrum which is located within the temporal lobe which can be seen from the surface of the brain, this bulge is also known as the Uncus. The Amygdala helps the body to respond to emotions, memories and fear.

The brain is an important organ in the human body. Although, the brain is an intricate structure, it influences everything, as our thoughts, our actions, and our emotions. Gaining knowledge on the functions of the brain can aid us in understanding human behavior as to why they behave in the manner they do.

The cerebellum is a larger portion of the brain which are all vertebrates. It is ten percent of the brain. The cerebellum can be separated in three parts, the midline vermis, and two lateral hemispheres. The hemispheres are large compared to other organisms and are used for motor control. The vermis is used for controlling muscle tone and level of force. Over all the cerebellum main functions are to control the cognitive

An emotion is described as, “a conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as a strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). Strong feelings of emotion, such as anger, love, fear, joy, hate, etc., impact parts of the brain, both positively and negatively, and how an individual learns.

The brain can be described similar to a vault, where the most important aspect of life is held, knowledge. Human knowledge has grown since the beginning of time, however pieces are still missing on the capabilities of the brain, and are still yet to be discovered. Neurologists are aware that the brain consists of five segments; these divisions consist of the Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe, Cerebellum, and the Temporal Lobe. Each of these parts work in harmony and has their own specific function, which as a whole controls our person.

The cerebrum itself contains a multitude of parts: the cerebral cortex, the hippocampus, the thalamus, and the pituitary and pineal gland.

To begin with, the human brain is the most complex part of the human body. It has control to every organ because of a primary functional unit which is the neurons. The exterior part of the brain has specific functions to every organ in the human body. Therefore, the human brain is the most important organ in the human body. A person can be left brained or right brained according to how they act.

When talking about emotion it seems a fairly simple topic and immediately "feeling" words come to mind; sad, happy, and confused. These are basic emotions and easy to understand. What isn't so simple about emotions is their process and how they form and work. Emotions are reactions to sensory information like sight, smell, taste, touch and sound (Tracing Emotion’s Pathways 94). However, it is not that simple; an emotional reaction or response is made aware of and understood by a part of the brain called the sensory cortex. These emotional responses or reactions to sensory stimuli are processed by a part of the brain called the amygdala (What’s An Emotion). The amygdala is a huge asset to the cognitive factors of emotions because in processing emotions you become able to understand, recognize, and control them. So then how do emotions evoke a physiological reaction such as tearing up when one feels sad, laughing with joy, and trembling with fear? These physiological reactions that one may experience come from the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is, “a collection of fibers that extend throughout

The brain is the largest most complex part of the nervous system and is the body’s control center for all voluntary and involuntary movement and the body’s functions. The brain directly affects behavior, perception, cognitive function and controls various moods and reactions. In psychology, it is crucial to better understand the nervous system and how it affects how we experience pleasure, pain, how emotion are felt and how we learn and comprehend our environment.