Mods 12-13

Question 1

Brainstem

Answer 1

Controls automatic survival functions

Question 2

Medulla

Answer 2

controls heartbeat and breathing

Question 3

Thalamus

Answer 3

directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla

Question 4

Reticular Formation

Answer 4

controls alertness and arousal

Question 5

Cerebellum

Answer 5

Sensory input, coordinating movement, output balance, enables learning/memory

Question 6

Limbic System

Answer 6

neural system located below the cerebral hemispheres; associated with emotions and drives

Question 7

Amygdala

Answer 7

Controls emotions

Question 8

Hypothalamus

Answer 8

Directs Maintenance activities, helps govern endocrine System, linked to reward

Question 9

Hippocampus

Answer 9

Stores memories

Question 10

Cerebral cortex

Answer 10

The intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering the cerebral hemispheres; the body’s ultimate control and information-processing center.

Question 11

Frontal lobes

Answer 11

speaking, muscle movements, making plans and judgements

Question 12

Parietal lobes

Answer 12

Receives sensory input for touch and body

Question 13

Occipital lobes

Answer 13

receive information from the visual fields

Question 14

Temporal lobes

Answer 14

Receive sensory input about sound

Question 15

Motor cortex

Answer 15

Controls voluntary movements

Question 16

Somatosensory cortex

Answer 16

registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

Question 17

Association Areas

Answer 17

involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking and speaking.

Question 18

Plastcity

Answer 18

the brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience

Question 19

Neurogensis

Answer 19

the formation of new neurons

Question 20

Corpus callosum

Answer 20

The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them

Question 21

Split Brain

Answer 21

a condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them

Question 22

Consciousness

Answer 22

our awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 23

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 23

the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)

Question 24

Dual Processing

Answer 24

principle that info is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

Question 25

Blindsight

Answer 25

a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it

Question 26

Parallel Processing

Answer 26

Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously; generally used to process WELL LEARNED info or to solve EASY problems

Question 27

Sequential Processing

Answer 27

Processing one aspect of a problem at a time; generally used to process NEW info or to solve DIFFICULT problems

Question 28

Paul Broca

Answer 28

Identified Broca’s areas, which is involved in expressive language (frontal lobe)

Question 29

Carl Wernicke

Answer 29

Discovered wernickes area involved in receptive language (temporal lobe)

Question 30

Roger Sperry, Micheal Gazzaniga

Answer 30

First split brain surgeries on human

Question 31

Charles Darwin

Answer 31

Natural Selection

Question 32

Phineas Gage

Answer 32

Tamping iron accident damaged neural tracks in his frontal lobe