Parts of Brain

Question 1

Frontal Lobe

Answer 1

Associated with judgement and decision making

Question 2

Parietal Lobe

Answer 2

Interprets sensory information and visual information/cues, processes language and mathematics as well as spatial information and navigation

Question 3

Occipital Lobe

Answer 3

Processor of visual stimuli/information

Question 4

Cerebellum

Answer 4

Controls balance and voluntary motor skills. Coordinates fine muscle, balance and some perception and cognition

Question 5

Brainstem/Medulla

Answer 5

Connects brain and body/nervous systems. Controls basic life functions such as heartbeat

Question 6

Temporal Lobe

Answer 6

Perception/interpretation of sound

Question 7

Corpus Callosum

Answer 7

Bundle of nerves that connect left and right hemispheres of brain

Question 8

Motor Cortex and Sensory Cortex

Answer 8

Control voluntary muscle movement, main sensory area for sense of touch

Question 9

Limbic Lobe/System

Answer 9

Complex of nerves that interconnects forebrain structures (emotions, drives, memory, etc.)

Question 10

Thalamus

Answer 10

Brain’s ‘switchboard’. Relays sensory information to cerebral cortex. (ex. air traffic control)

Question 11

Hippocampus

Answer 11

Involved in formation and retrieval of memories (I’d remember if I saw a hippo on campus)

Question 12

Pons

Answer 12

Connector of frontal lobe and cerebellum and is involved in sleeping, waking, movement and dreaming

Question 13

Pituitary Gland

Answer 13

Controls growth and development as well as function of endocrine glands

Question 14

Amygdala

Answer 14

Controls her basic emotions and is involved in the formation of emotional memory (Amy controls her emotions and remembers the time Sheldon broke her heart, examples of emotions would include happiness, anxiety, fear,etc.)

Question 15

Hypothalamus

Answer 15

Small structure beneath the thalamus that governs drives (hunger, thirst, sex, etc.)

Question 16

Reward System of Brain (no one specific area)

Answer 16

Associated with reinforcement

Question 17

Basal Ganglia

Answer 17

Tight clusters of nerves that are very interconnected. Recieve information from several different regions of the cerebral cortex. Once BG have processed this information, they return it to the motor cortex via the thalamus

Question 18

Reticular Formation

Answer 18

Diffuse set of neurons that helps screen incoming information and controls (non-sexual!) arousal