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1. Introduction to Psychology1h 43m
2. Psychology Research2h 20m
3. Biological Psychology2h 41m
4. Sensation and Perception28m
5. Consciousness and Sleep32m
- Sleep
  32m
6. Learning1h 26m
7. Memory34m
- Information Processing Model
  4m
- Storage - The Three Box Model of Memory
  29m
8. Cognition37m
- The Structure of Language
  12m
- Language Development
  25m
9. Emotion and Motivation35m
10. Developmental Psychology33m
11. Personality48m
12. Social Psychology41m
13. Stress and Health41m
14. Psychological Disorders44m
15. Treatment47m

3. Biological Psychology

The Cortical Forebrain

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3. Biological Psychology

The Cortical Forebrain

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Roger Sperry was looking for a cure for which disease when researching differentiation of the left and right hemispheres of the brain?

Epilepsy

Parkinson's

Spatial neglect

Aphasia

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Understand the context of Roger Sperry's research, which focused on the differentiation of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Recognize that Sperry's work is most famously associated with split-brain research, which involves studying patients who have had the corpus callosum severed.

Identify the primary reason for severing the corpus callosum, which is to reduce the severity of epileptic seizures.

Consider the options provided: Epilepsy, Parkinson's, Spatial neglect, and Aphasia.

Connect the purpose of Sperry's research on split-brain patients to the treatment of epilepsy, as this was the condition he was primarily addressing.