Brain and Neuropsychology

Question 1

Frontal Lobe

Answer 1

• decision-making

- movement (motor cortex)

Question 2

Temporal Lobe

Answer 2

• speech

- memory

Question 3

Parietal Lobe

Answer 3

• perception
• sense of touch
• prosopagnosia

Question 4

Occipital Lobe

Answer 4

Visual Information

Question 5

Cerebellum

Answer 5

Motor skills

Question 6

Lateralisation of Function in Hemispheres

Answer 6

• Corpus Callosum connects left and right hemisphere
• Left hemisphere = contains Broca’s area for speech (girls)
• Right hemisphere = spatial awareness (boys)

Question 7

Strengths and Weaknesses of Lateralisation in sex differences

Answer 7

+Harasty found girls better at language tasks
+Evidence supporting uses scientific methods = brain scans
-Rilea found men sometimes do better at language tasks
-Sommer found no strong evidence that girls use both hemispheres for language tasks

Question 8

What is the CNS?

Answer 8

Brain and spinal cord

Question 9

Neurotransmitters

Answer 9

Chemicals that are released from neurons to help them pass messages from one cell to another

Question 10

Synaptic Functioning Passing Messages

Answer 10

1) Electrical impulse triggered inside a cell body of a neuron
2) Neuron passes impulses along the axon towards end of nerve fibre
3) Impulse reaches terminal button
4) Vesicles release neurotransmitter molecules into synapse
5) Molecules are grabbed by receptors on next neuron = passing impulse along

Question 11

Visual Agnosia

Answer 11

• Brain can’t process what you are seeing

- Unable to recognise: colour, objects and name them, places

Question 12

Prosopagnosia

Answer 12

Faces can’t be processed by brain

Question 13

Impact of Damage

Answer 13

Pre-frontal cortex = impulses and controlling emotions, you would be more impulsive and aggressive

Question 14

Sperry Results

Answer 14

Reading words and selecting objects:

• right visual field could repeat word
• left couldn’t
• left could select object that matched what they had seen
• right couldn’t point to correct object

Objects in hands:

• object felt by right hand, could name it
• held by left hand, couldn’t name it

Question 15

Sperry Conclusion

Answer 15

• each hemisphere works well without being connected
• each hemisphere has its own memories that cant be shared to the other hemisphere
• left hemisphere better at naming items held in right hand
• right hemisphere better at identifying objects held in left hand

Question 16

Sperry Strengths and Weaknesses

Answer 16

-low sample side (11)

+lots of detailed information