Brain structures

Question 1

Brainstem

Answer 1

Life support

Question 2

medulla

Answer 2

breathing, heart

Question 3

pons

Answer 3

sleep

Question 4

reticular formation

Answer 4

alert

Question 5

thalamus

Answer 5

reroutes sensory info

Question 6

cerebellum

Answer 6

balance, motor control, implicit memories

Question 7

amygdala

Answer 7

emotions

Question 8

hippocampus

Answer 8

explicit memory

Question 9

hypothalamus

Answer 9

hunger, homeostasis, sex, fight or flight

Question 10

basil ganglia

Answer 10

neurons that specialize in processing info

Question 11

occipital lobe

Answer 11

vision

Question 12

parietal lobe

Answer 12

Characteristics of touch: pressure, temp, texture, pain

Question 13

temporal lobe

Answer 13

interpretation of language, explicit memories, faces and objects

Question 14

frontal lobe

Answer 14

motor movement, personality, planning, judgement

Question 15

motor cortex

Answer 15

instigate movement

Question 16

somatosensory cortex

Answer 16

touch

Question 17

broca’s area

Answer 17

move mouth, syntax

Question 18

wernike’s area

Answer 18

interpretate language, way words sound

Question 19

expressive aphasia

Answer 19

inability to physically speak

Question 20

receptive aphasia

Answer 20

cant understand speech or form coherent sentences

Question 21

fusiform gyrus

Answer 21

object/ facial recognition

Question 22

angular gyrus

Answer 22

spatial

Question 23

prefrontal cortex

Answer 23

generate, organize, plan, carry out goal- directed behaviors