Brain and Nervous system

Question 1

Central Nervous system

Answer 1

• Brain and spinal cord

- Psychological and basic life processes

Question 2

Peripheral Nervous system

Answer 2

• Carries information to and from CNS

- Somatic and Autonomic nervous system

Question 3

Somatic Nervous system

Answer 3

• sends sensory info til CNS (afferent)

- sends motor messages to muscles (efferent)

Question 4

Autonomic Nervous system

Answer 4

• Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
• Basic life functions
• Heart beat and breathing

Question 5

Sympathetic Nervous system

Answer 5

• fight or flight

- response to threats

Question 6

Parasympathetic Nervous system

Answer 6

• Calms down body
• Routine functions
• Maintains energy

Question 7

Hindbrain

Answer 7

• Medulla
• Cerebellum
• Reticular formation
• Pons

Question 8

Midbrain

Answer 8

• Tectum

- Tegmentum

Question 9

Forebrain

Answer 9

• Hypothalamus
• Thalamus
• Cerebral Cortex
• Limbic system (thalamus, hippocampus)
• Basal ganglia

Question 10

Left hemisphere

Answer 10

• right side body/world
• speech, reading
• language, visual memory
• sound, motor movements
• math

Question 11

Right hemisphere

Answer 11

• left side body/visual
• emotional
• direction, distance
• non-verbal memory
• music, non -language sounds
• faces, patterns

Question 12

Broca´s area

Answer 12

• left frontal lobe
• speech production
• make sentences, speak

Question 13

Wernicke’s area

Answer 13

• left temporal lobe
• language comprehension
• word salad

Question 14

The bundle of neurons that connect and allows communication between hempispheres

Answer 14

Corpus Callosum

Question 15

Occipital lobe

Answer 15

Vision

Question 16

Parietal lobe

Answer 16

touch (tactile information) + visual attention, integrates visual information

Question 17

Temporal lobe

Answer 17

Audio, speech, language

Question 18

Frontal lobe

Answer 18

• high order tasks

- planning, social skills, abstract thinking, attention, some personality

Question 19

1. Cerebellum
2. Medulla
3. Reticular Formation =

Answer 19

1. Balance + coordination of movement
2. conscious, vital body functions : breathing, blood flow
3. consciousness and arousal

Question 20

1. Tectum

2. Tegmentum

Answer 20

1. Visual + audio stimuli

2. movement and arousal, learning (“connected” with positive/negative feelings)

Question 21

1. Hypothalamus

2. Thalamus

Answer 21

1. Eating, sleeping, sexual behavior, emotions

2. Recieves and sends info to relevant areas

Question 22

1. Hyppocampus

2. Amygdala

Answer 22

1. storing information, memory

2. Emotions