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AP Psychology 3.2 Biological Bases of Behavior. Knowing that the lake is freezing comes from the what?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Lake Michigan which always [Lake Michigan from birds eye view transforms into an eggplant]

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makes us crave eggplant for some reason hmmm wonder why.. All right here's our question

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jumping into Lake Michigan in January might cause you to a scream knowing that

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the lake is freezing comes from the what... and hear your potential answers....

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...Okay well let's start with A - the frontal lobe, that's easy to

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locate see you know that it's right there in front..Does it keep you in the [Arrow pointing to frontal lobe]

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know on what's cold and hot no quite not it's in charge of problem-solving and

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decision-making among other things so you can definitely blame it for all bad [Image of a brain on a chalkboard with an algebra equation]

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decisions from here on out you know like jumping into a lake in January bad

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frontal lobe, bad! All right what about B - a temporal lobe well this is the

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area of the brain that deals with things like auditory and visual perception [Man using a computer]

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language recognition and making new memories so not what we're looking for

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but we do have a feeling the temporal lobe will never forget this frozen lake [Temporal lobe thinking about a man jumping in Lake Michigan]

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experience... Let's move on to the occipital lobe the word occipital comes

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from the Latin Ocipit which means back of the skull which conveniently enough [Arrows pointing to the back of a skull]

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is where it's located the occipital lobe is mainly in charge of processing the

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information coming in through our eyeballs and we all know you can't feel

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whether or not something is hot or cold just by looking at it right that would [Man testing how hot a dish is by using his hand]

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be insane alright we can cross out D... what about the side lobe well the thing

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about the side lobe is it's not a real lobe, soo we can eliminate it. That leaves

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us just with C - the parietal lobe well this lobe is responsible for processing

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sensory information from the body like taste, the spatial awareness of your body [Woman biting into a lemon]

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parts and yes that the icy dead of winter frigid lake water is in fact just

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a wee bit chilly to the touch now if you'd excuse us we have the strangest

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craving for eggplant wonder why that happened?.. [lake michigan transforms into an eggplant]

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