Week 5

Question 1

What was Hippocrates’ view of the brain?

Answer 1

The brain controls the body and is involved in emotions and thought

Question 2

What did Descartes believe about behavior?

Answer 2

It was mechanical, driven by fluid and pistons

Question 3

What did Luigi Galvani discover?

Answer 3

Nerves transmit electricity, not fluid

Question 4

What was Franz Gall’s contribution?

Answer 4

Proposed brain modularity (phrenology), flawed but influential

Question 5

What is Broca’s area responsible for?

Answer 5

Speech production

Question 6

What is Wernicke’s area responsible for?

Answer 6

Language comprehension

Question 7

What was a goal of the Human Brain Project?

Answer 7

Brain simulation and reducing animal experimentation

Question 8

What are the two major parts of the nervous system?

Answer 8

CNS (brain, spinal cord)
PNS (nerves outside CNS)

Question 9

What does the somatic nervous system control?

Answer 9

Voluntary movement and sensory input

Question 10

What does the autonomic nervous system control?

Answer 10

Involuntary functions

Question 11

What are the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 11

Sympathetic
Parasympathetic
Enteric

Question 12

What is the role of the sympathetic system?

Answer 12

Fight-or-flight
Uses adrenaline and noradrenaline

Question 13

What does the parasympathetic system do?

Answer 13

Rest-and-digest
Uses acetylcholine

Question 14

What is unique about the enteric nervous system?

Answer 14

Can act independently
Called the “second brain”