Brain Vocab Terms

Question 1

Pituitary Gland

Answer 1

regulate other glands: dangles off brain

Question 2

medulla

Answer 2

blood pressure, heart rate, breathing; located just above the spinal cord

Question 3

Pons

Answer 3

sleep; part of brainstem, below midbrain, above medulla

Question 4

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 4

“gray matter” involved in problem-solving and complex thinking

Question 5

Cerebellum

Answer 5

balance, movement, and posture; back of the brain

Question 6

Corpus Callosum

Answer 6

connects and sends messages to the 2 hemispheres of the brain

Question 7

Frontal Lobe

Answer 7

PET (personality, emotion, and thought)

Question 8

Temporal Lobe

Answer 8

processes hearing

Question 9

Occipital Lobe

Answer 9

processes vision

Question 10

Parietal Lobe

Answer 10

process sensory information

Question 11

Thalamus

Answer 11

receives and relays sensory information

Question 12

Hypothalamus

Answer 12

body temperature, sexual arousal, hunger, thirst, and emotion

Question 13

Amygdala

Answer 13

emotion; part of temporal lobe

Question 14

Midbrain

Answer 14

Pain

Question 15

Brainstem

Answer 15

autonomic functions

Question 16

motor cortex

Answer 16

controls voluntary movements; part of the frontal lobe

Question 17

Hippocampus

Answer 17

short-term memory

Question 18

Pineal Gland

Answer 18

regulates daily activities, controls sleep, produces melatonin; close to thalamus

Question 19

Sensory Cortex

Answer 19

interprets senses

Question 20

Reticular Formation

Answer 20

arousal, alertness, and attention

Question 21

Wernick’s Area

Answer 21

decodes speech

Question 22

Broca’s Area

Answer 22

commands speech

Question 23

Visual Cortex

Answer 23

interprets vision in the ococipital lobe

Question 24

Optic Nerve

Answer 24

vision carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain

Question 25

Olfactory Nerve

Answer 25

carries smell impulses from nose to brain