Brain

Question 0

What is the thalamus used for ?

Answer 0

Receiving information from all senses except smell

Question 1

What is aphasia ?

Answer 1

Impaired use of language

Question 3

If the right cerebral hemisphere is sedated while a patients is told to read aloud with both hands up what would happen?

Answer 3

The left arm will fall as they continue to read aloud

Question 4

What is the reticular formation?

Answer 4

Controls arousal

Question 5

Right hemisphere specializes in what

Answer 5

Picture recognition

Question 6

Wernicke’s are is located in the left _____ lobe.

Answer 6

Temporal

Question 7

Job of the frontal lobe ?

Answer 7

Speaking , muscle movement, making plans and judgement

Question 8

Jobs of the parietal love

Answer 8

Sensory input for touch and body position

Question 9

Jobs of the occipital lobe

Answer 9

Receive information from visual fields

Question 10

Job of the temporal lobe

Answer 10

Auditory : receive information from the opposite ear

Question 11

What is wernicke’s area

Answer 11

Area that deals with language comprehension and expression (left temporal) and language reception

Question 12

What brain structure provides a major link between the nervous system and hormone system

Answer 12

Hypothalamus

Question 13

Motor cortex is located in the ___ lobes

Answer 13

Frontal

Question 14

Destruction of brain tissue is referring to …..

Answer 14

A brain lesion

Question 15

What caused the dramatic change of personality in phineas gage? Damage to his ________

Answer 15

Frontal lobe

Question 16

What lobe allows you to feel somebody touching your back?

Answer 16

Parietal

Question 17

Where is the cerebellum located and what is it also known as?

Answer 17

The rear of the brainstem ; little brain

Question 18

Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere could reduce a persons ability to do what ?

Answer 18

Solve arithmetic problems

Question 19

X-ray photographs of the brain are used to produce a _________

Answer 19

CT scan

Question 20

PET scan show that the visual cortex lights up when blind people read Braille This shows _____

Answer 20

Plasticity : the brains ability to change , by reorganizing after damage or building a new pathway based on experience

Question 21

What is Broca’s area ?

Answer 21

Controls language expression: an area that controls the muscle movement for speech

Question 22

What is the amygdala associated with?

Answer 22

Emotions

Question 23

Right handed split brain patients are able to ___________

Answer 23

Name unseen objects placed on their left hands but not objects placed on their right hands

Question 24

Where is the reticular formation located?

Answer 24

Brainstem

Question 25

What does the cerebellum control ?

Answer 25

Processing sensory input and coordination and balance

Question 26

Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex?

Answer 26

Thalamus

Question 27

Association areas are linked with what ?

Answer 27

Memories: allows you to recognize somebody as your mother

Question 28

What is the corpus callosum

Answer 28

The large band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres

Question 30

What distinguishes us from Other animals

Answer 30

Cerebral cortex: as it gets larger our level of thing is higher