Week 8 AP Vocabulary

Question 1

Occipital Lobes

Answer 1

Portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head includes areas that receives information from the visual fields

Question 2

Frontal Lobes

Answer 2

Portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments

Question 3

Motor Cortex

Answer 3

An area at the rear of the frontal lobe that controls voluntary movement part of the brain were the nerve impulses originate that initiate voluntary muscular activity

Question 4

Hypothalamus

Answer 4

I neural structure lying below or hypo the thalamus is linked to motion and reward

Question 5

Limbic System

Answer 5

Donut shaped neurosystem located below the cerebral hemispheres associated with emotion and drives including the hippo campus in amygdala and hypothalamus

Question 6

Cerebellum

Answer 6

The “little brain” at the rear of the brainstem functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement input and output

Question 7

Medulla

Answer 7

The base of the brainstem controls heartbeat and breathing (involuntary functions)

Question 8

Dual Processing

Answer 8

The principle that information is often Simon tediously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

Question 9

Split Brains

Answer 9

A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brains two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly corpus callosum) connecting them

Question 10

Amygdala

Answer 10

To lima beans size neural clusters in the limbic system linked to emotion

Question 11

Corpus Callosum

Answer 11

A large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and caring messages between them.

Question 12

Temporal Lobes

Answer 12

Portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears includes auditory areas, each receiving information, primarily from the opposite ear.