C2. P5

Question 1

What is the newest structure in the brain?

Answer 1

Cerebral cortex and cerebrum

Question 2

How much does the cerebrum weight?

Answer 2

It makes up 80% of the brains total weight

Question 3

Is the cerebrum made up of white matter or dark matter?

Answer 3

White matter

Question 4

What is white matter?

Answer 4

Highly myelinated neurons and glial cells

Question 5

Is the cerebral cortex made up of white matter or gray matter?

Answer 5

Gray matter

Question 6

What is gray matter?

Answer 6

Unmyelinated neurons

Question 7

Are there more neurons in the cerebral cortex or the limbic system?

Answer 7

The cerebral cortex contains 23 billion neurons (300 trillion connections), it is much more advanced

Question 8

What is the purpose of the occipital lobe?

Answer 8

Processing visual sensory information

Question 9

What is the route visual information takes?

Answer 9

The information is sent through the brainstem to the thalamus, who will route it to the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe

Question 10

What allows us to be conscious of visual information?

Answer 10

The processing of it in the PVC

Question 11

What is the purpose of the temporal lobe?

Answer 11

Register sound

Question 12

What is the primary auditory cortex?

Answer 12

Involved in processing sounds and pitch

Question 13

What does Wernicke’s area allow us to do?

Answer 13

Allows us to comprehend spoken language

Question 14

Wernicke’s area and PAC are close together, allowing….

Answer 14

The understanding of spoken language

Question 15

Is Werneck’s area in the right or left temporal lobe?

Answer 15

Left temporal lobe

Question 16

What links senses with memories?

Answer 16

The temporal lobe links sensory experience with memories

Question 17

What is the parietal lobe involved in?

Answer 17

Body awareness, sensory integration, and spatial orientation

Question 18

What is the Primary Somatosensory cortex and where is it?

Answer 18

Located at the front of the parental role, the PSC processes sensory information concerning touch, pressure, vibration, and pain

Question 19

What is the Homunculus Organization strip?

Answer 19

A part of the brain where the body can be mapped

Question 20

What places get the most space in the homunculus strip?

Answer 20

Places with lots of sensations, like the face

Question 21

What is the parietal association area?

Answer 21

Integrates sound from the temporal lobe, visual information from the occipital lobe, and sensation from the somatosensory cortex

Question 22

What helps us judge distance?

Answer 22

Parietal association area

Question 23

What is the primary motor cortex?

Answer 23

A strip that maps the motor movements of the body

Question 24

What two cortexes have a homunculus organization?

Answer 24

The primary motor cortex and primary somatosensory cortex

Question 25

Where is Broca's area located?

Answer 25

Within the left frontal lobe

Question 26

What is Broca's area?

Answer 26

A cluster of neurons that help us with spoken language production

Question 27

What is the most advanced part of the brain?

Answer 27

Prefrontal cortex

Question 28

What are executive functions?

Answer 28

The advanced cognitive functions that involve self regulation and metacognition

Question 29

What part of the brain is responsible for critical abstract thinking, moral reasoning, and behavior?

Answer 29

Prefrontal cortex

Question 30

What is metacognition?

Answer 30

The higher order skills involved in thinking about thinking

Question 31

What are the two areas of executive functions?

Answer 31

Internal regulation and metacognitive skills

Question 32

What are three parts of internal regulation?

Answer 32

Inhibiting actions and urges, emotional regulation, and self monitoring

Question 33

What are 4 parts of metacognitive skills

Answer 33

Working memory, problem solving, planning and decision making, abstract and symbolic thought

Question 34

What are association areas?

Answer 34

Integrates information across the brain from incoming sensory input located in the cerebral cortex

Question 35

What allows us to anticipate future events and weigh consequences?

Answer 35

Association areas

Question 36

What don't association areas do?

Answer 36

Are not involved with the initial processing of sensory information and initiating movement