Ch14 Cognition, Emotion, Memory, and Language Pt2

Question 1

What is synaptogenesis?

Answer 1

The creation of new synapses that requires repeated firing of synapses

Question 2

What is retrograde amnesia?

Answer 2

Memory loss of events occuring prior to injury

Question 3

What is posttraumatic (anterograde) amnesia?

Answer 3

The inability to recall events that have occurred after the onset of injury

Question 4

What is Wernicke’s receptive language area responsible for?

Answer 4

Processing the meaning of language

Question 5

Damage to Wernicke’s receptive language area results in what?

Answer 5

Receptive aphasia, the inability to understand speech

Question 6

Broca’s expressive language area is responsible for what?

Answer 6

Language production

Question 7

Damage to Broca’s area results in what?

Answer 7

Expressive aphasia, in which a person can understand speech but cannot formulate it

Question 8

In what hemisphere are Broca’s and Wernicke’s area located in?

Answer 8

The left hemisphere

Question 9

The corresponding regions of Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas on the other side of the brain are involved with what type of communication?

Answer 9

Non-verbal communication, understanding gestures and facial expressions, as well as producing meaningful gestures

Question 10

Damage to both Broca’s and Wernicke’s area results in what?

Answer 10

Global aphasia

Question 11

What is global aphasia?

Answer 11

The inability to understand or formulate speech