CHAPTER 2

Question 1

Anatomy and mechanism of the brain

anatomy part of the brain

mechanism how the brain works

Answer 1

neuroscience

Question 2

studies how the brain and other aspects of the nervous system are linked to cognitive processing and ultimately to behavior.

Answer 2

cognitive neuroscience

Question 3

the organ in our bodies that mostly directly controls our thoughts, emotions and motivations.

Answer 3

brain

Question 4

refers to specific areas of the brain that controls specific skills of behavior.

Answer 4

localization of function

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react

Answer 5

reactive brain

Question 6

command

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directive brain

Question 7

gross anatomy of the brain

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hind brain
forebrain
midbrain

Question 8

1st to develop, responsible for our behavior, survival, and most of animals have this.

farthest from the fore brain, near the back of the neck.

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hind brain

Question 9

controls heart activity, breathing, swallowing and digestion.

Answer 9

medulla oblangata

Question 10

“bridges” latin

contains neural fibers that pass signals from one part of the brain to another

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pons

Question 11

little brain in latin

little cerebrum

controls bodily coordination, balance, and muscle tone.

procedural memory

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cerebellum

Question 12

responsible for eye movement and coordination.

Answer 12

mid brain

Question 13

neurons essential to regulating consciousness, sleep, wakefulness, arousal, attention.

midrain to hindbrain

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reticular activating system (RAS)

Question 14

hindbrain, along with the thalamus, midrain and hypothalamus make up the ________

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brainstem

Question 15

farthest forward, toward what becomes the face.

located toward the top and front of the brain.

include cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, limbic system, thalamus, and hypothalamus

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fore brain

Question 16

neurons crucial to motor function

singular: ganglion

focuses on movements like parkinsons disease

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basal ganglia

Question 17

emotion, motivation, memory and learning

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limbic system

Question 18

three structure of limbic system

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septum
amygdala
hippocampus

Question 19

anger and fear

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septum

Question 20

emotional memory, anger, aggression, perception of emotional stimuli and social cognition.

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amygdala

Question 21

memory formation, declarative memory, autobiographical memory, and spatial memory.

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hippocampus

Question 22

produces loss of memory function

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korsakoff’s syndrome

Question 23

transmit incoming censory information to cerebral cortex

switchboard of the brain

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thalamus

Question 24

fight or flight response, feeding, appetite, sex, stress.

responsible for consciousness, pleasure, pain, stimulate pituary gland.

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hypothalamus

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reading, writing, creative thinking, artistic abilities, feelings, visualizations, imaginations, inclusion and rhythm.

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right hemisphere

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logic, mathematics, verbal, analytical thinking, ordering.

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left hemisphere

Question 27

from one side to another

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contralateral

Question 28

stay at the part of the brain transmission on the same side

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ipsilateral

Question 29

outer cover of cerebral hemisphere white and grey matter, myelin sheath left and right hemisphere bonded with corpus callosum

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cerebral cortex

Question 30

treated 40 patients suffering aphasia noticed relationship between loss of speech as a result of brain damage. damage to the left hemisphere of the brain

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marc dax

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french scientist aphasic stroke lesion in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain is critical in speech broca's area

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paul broca

Question 32

wernicke's area german neurologist language deficient patient, who could speak but whose speech made no sense

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carl wernicke

Question 33

father of neuropsychology found that implantations of crudely build electrodes

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karl spencer lashley

Question 34

nobel prize winning psychologist each hemisphere behaves in many aspects like a separate brain. split brain surgery( corpus callosum in to half)

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rogers sperry

Question 35

short circuit of the brain most common condition at the past split brain surgery is one of the cure

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epilepsy

Question 36

they're body act like it's separate. because of the split brain surgery it cause them to have two brain.

Answer 36

alien hands syndrome