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Module 4 Flashcards

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The base of the brainstem controls heartbeat and breathing

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Medulla

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Oldest part and central core of the brain

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Brain stem

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The brains sensory router that directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla

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Thalamus

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A nerve network that travels through the brainstem and plays an important role in controlling arousal

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Reticular formation

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4
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Little brain, processes sensory input, and coordinates movement output

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Cerebellum

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System associated with emotions and drives

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Limbic system

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Two Lima bean sized neural clusters in the limbic system linked to emotion

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Amygdala

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Linked to reward,directs several maintenance activities like eating,drinking, and body temp

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Hypothalamus

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The body’s ultimate control and info-processing center

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Cerebral cortex

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Involved in speaking,muscle movements, and making plans or judgements

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Frontal lobes

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Receives sensory input for touch and body position

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Parietal lobes

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Receives info from the visual fields

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Occipital lobes

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Includes auditory areas and each receiving info primarily from the opposite eat

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Temporal lobes

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13
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Controls voluntary movements

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Motor cortex

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14
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Registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

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Sensory cortex

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Involved in higher mental functions like remembering and learning

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Association areas

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16
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Brains ability to change

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Plasticity

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Connects the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them

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Corpus callousum

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18
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Isolating the two brain hemispheres by cutting the corpus callosum

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Split brain

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19
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Research has suggested that a reward deficiency syndrome may contribute to …

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Alcohol dependence

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The limbic system structure that regulates hunger is called the …

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Hypothalamus

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To monitor the electrical activity in the brain that is triggered by hearing one’s own name, researchers would make use if a(n)…

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EEG

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Research with split-brain patients suggests that the (blank) typically constructs the theories people offer to explain their behaviors.

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Left cerebral hemisphere

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After Kato's serious motorcycle accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum.  Kato's is most likely to have difficulty ...
A..reading printed words
B..understanding what others are saying
C..tasting the favors of food
D.playing his guitar
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Playing his guitar

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The nerve fibers that enable communication between right and left cerebral hemispheres and that have been severed in split-brain patients from a structure called the ….

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Corpus callosum

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During open heart surgery, Adam’s left ankle twitched whenever the surgeon electrically stimulated a specific area within Adam’s ..

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Right frontal lobe

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The corpus callosum is a wide band of axon fibers that ..

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Transmits information between the cerebral hemispheres

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Cortical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory, motor, or language functions are…

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Called association areas

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Following a nail gun wound to his head, Jack became more uninhibited, irritable, dishonest, and profane. It is likely that his personality change was the result of injury to his…

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Frontal lobe

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The “drug reward” system in the brain is found primarily in the (blank) system.

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Limbic

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A picture of a dog is briefly flashed in the left visual field of a split-brain patient. At the same time a picture of a boy is flashed in the right visual field. In identifying what she saw, the patient would be most likely to ..

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Verbally report she saw a boy

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The benefits of brain plasticity are most clearly demonstrated in..

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Children who have had a cerebral hemisphere surgically removed.

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James Olds and Peter Milner located reward centers in the brain structure known as the ….

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Hypothalamus

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From ages 3 to 6, the brain’s neural networks are sprouting most rapidly in the …

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Frontal lobes

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Which of the following would be most useful for detecting the brain areas that are most active as a person performs mathematical calculations?

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A PET scan

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Following massive damage to his frontal lobes, Phineas Gage was most strikingly debilitated by …

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Multiple sclerosis

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The visual cortex is located in the

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Occipital lobes

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Three-year-old Marco suffered damage to the speech area of the brain’s left hemisphere when he fell from a swing. Research suggests that…

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His right hemisphere may take over much of the language function

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Jessica experienced difficulty keeping her balance after receiving a blow to the back of the head. It is likely that she injured her…

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Cerebellum

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The regions of the parietal lobes that are involved in mathematical and spatial reasoning are known as …

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Association area

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Research has found that the amount of representation in the motor cortex reflects the…

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Degree of precise control required by each of the parts

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To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate the rat’s …

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Amygdaloid

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Which portion of the cerebral cortex is most directly involved in making plans and formulating moral judgements?

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Frontal lobes

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Brain scans indicate that we’ll-practiced pianists have a larger-than-usual auditory cortex area that encodes piano sounds. This best illustrates …

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Plasticity

44
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Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people’s ability to….

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Solve arithmetic problems

45
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Though there is no single “control center” for emotions, their regulation is primarily attributed to the brain region known as the ….

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Limbic system

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The auditory hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in their…

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Temporal lobes

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The occipital lobes are to (blank) as the temporal lobes are to (blank).

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Seeing…hearing

48
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The cerebral cortex I’d the covering layer of the ….

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Cerebellum

49
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Following a head injury, a person has ongoing difficulties staying awake. Most likely, the damage occurred to the …

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Reticular formation

50
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The part of the brainstem that controls heartbeat and breathing is called the …

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Medulla

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