EXAM 1

Question 1

central nervous system components

Answer 1

brain and spinal cord

Question 2

peripheral nervous system components

Answer 2

somatic and autonomic nervous systems

Question 3

nucleus

Answer 3

group of neuron cell bodies in the CNS

Question 4

ganglion

Answer 4

group of neuron cell bodies in the PNS

Question 5

grey matter

Answer 5

cell bodies

Question 6

white matter

Answer 6

fibers

Question 7

dorsal to ventral

Answer 7

top vs bottom

Question 8

medial vs lateral

Answer 8

toward vs away from midline

Question 9

anterior vs posterior

Answer 9

front vs away

Question 10

sagittal (brain plane)

Answer 10

split down the middle of the brain

Question 11

coronal (brain plane)

Answer 11

split from shoulder to shoulder

Question 12

horizontal (brain plane)

Answer 12

split from top to bottom

Question 13

forebrain subdivisions

Answer 13

telencephalon and diencephalon

Question 14

midbrain subdivision

Answer 14

mesencephalon

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hindbrain subdivisions

Answer 15

metencephalon and myelencephalon

Question 16

reticular formation

Answer 16

a collection of about 100 groups of cells that participate in arousal and cardiac reflexes

Question 17

pons

Answer 17

fibers connecting the hindbrain to the midbrain and forebrain

Question 18

thalamus

Answer 18

relay system for sensory information

Question 19

cortex

Answer 19

left visual field send signal to right visual cortex; vice versa

Question 20

tectum

Answer 20

orients to stimuli that need attention

Question 21

cerebellum

Answer 21

initiation of movement and sensorimotor structure involved in motor coordination

Question 22

substantia nigra

Answer 22

movement

Question 23

basal ganglia components

Answer 23

caudate nucleus, putamen, and globus pallidus

Question 24

limbic system

Answer 24

collection of structures in the brain that seem to be important for both learning memory and emotion

Question 25

amygdala

Answer 25

studies in fear learning

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hippocampus

Answer 26

widely studied for learning and memory and for emotion and stress responses

Question 27

septum

Answer 27

sending projections to hippocampus and other structures

Question 28

cingulate cortex

Answer 28

emotional pain, physical pain, and emotional contexts light up this structure

Question 29

hypothalamus

Answer 29

critical for regulating hormone systems and maintaining homeostasis feeding, fleeing, fighting, sexual behavior

Question 30

brain grooves

Answer 30

sulcus and fissures

Question 31

brain bumps

Answer 31

gyrus

Question 32

cortex lobes

Answer 32

occipital lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, frontal lobe

Question 33

occipital lobe

Answer 33

vision

Question 34

temporal lobe

Answer 34

audition

Question 35

parietal lobe

Answer 35

touch

Question 36

frontal lobe

Answer 36

motor and executive function

Question 37

central sulcus

Answer 37

separates frontal and parietal lobes

Question 38

lateral fissure

Answer 38

separates temporal from frontal and parietal lobes

Question 39

cortex layers

Answer 39

layer 1: no cell bodies; only fibers layer 2: interneurons layer 3: pyramidal cells layer 4: interneurons layer 5: pyramidal cells layer 6: many types of cells