Psych - unit 1

Question 1

Forebrain

Answer 1

Complex thinking, voluntary movement, emotion regulation, sensory processing, homeostasis

Question 2

Cerebrum

Answer 2

Conscious thoughts, voluntary movement, decision-making, feelings

Question 3

Cerebral cortex

Answer 3

High-level thinking, memory, language, emotion regulation

Question 4

Corpus calossum

Answer 4

Connects the left and right hemispheres

Question 5

Frontal lobe

Answer 5

Thinking, planning, problem-solving, decision-making, voluntary movements, personality, emotions, and social behaviour

Contains Broca’s Area (speech production)

Question 6

Parietal lobe

Answer 6

Touch, spatial awareness, somatosensory processing

Question 7

Temporal lobe

Answer 7

Hearing, memory, Wernicke’s Area (language comprehension), facial recognition

Question 8

Occipital lobe

Answer 8

Visual processing

Question 9

Thalamus

Answer 9

Sensory relay station (except smell), attention control

Question 10

Hypothalamus

Answer 10

Internal balance (hunger, thirst, sleep, temperature, hormones)

Question 11

Amygdala

Answer 11

Processes emotions, especially fear; triggers fight or flight response

Question 12

Hippocampus

Answer 12

Forms long-term explicit memories

Question 13

Basal ganglia

Answer 13

Filters movement signals, controls motor function and habits

Contains the Striatum

Question 14

Midbrain

Answer 14

Movement control, visual and auditory processing, dopamine production

Question 15

Substantia nigra

Answer 15

Produces dopamine; involved in motor control

Question 16

Hindbrain

Answer 16

Survival functions, motor control, balance, coordination

Question 17

Cerebellum

Answer 17

Coordinates fine motor movements, balance, posture, stores procedural (implicit) memories