The brain S&F

Question 1

Medulla oblongata

Answer 1

controls vital signs (breathing, heart rate, blood pressure)

Question 2

Pons

Answer 2

Sleep cycles (responsible for paralysis during sleep), breathing, facial expressions

Question 3

Cerebellum

Answer 3

Balance and movement, speech, procedural memory (muscle memory)

Question 4

Reticular formation

Answer 4

Voluntary muscle movements, alertness, consciousness

Question 5

Thalamus

Answer 5

The switchboard of the brain (puts info into different places)

Question 6

Hypothalamus

Answer 6

endocrine/hormones (temperature, hunger, thirst, arousal)

Question 7

Amygdala

Answer 7

Emotions

Question 8

Hippocampus

Answer 8

Declarative and Episodic Memory

Question 9

Frontal Lobe

Answer 9

Planning, control, abstract thought, speech

Question 10

Temporal

Answer 10

Listening

Question 11

Parietal

Answer 11

Sensory info, spacial

Question 12

Occipital

Answer 12

Visual input

Question 13

Sensory Cortex

Answer 13

Sense of touch

Question 14

Motor cortex

Answer 14

planning, control, execution of voluntary movement

Question 15

Broca’s area

Answer 15

Speech production

Question 16

Wernicke’s area

Answer 16

Comprehension of written and spoken language

Question 17

Ventricles

Answer 17

Area in the brain with no brain matter (holes in brain) get bigger from illness/disease

Question 18

Hemispheres

Answer 18

left/ right
left- language, detail oriented
right- big picture, judgement

Question 19

Corpus call is um

Answer 19

Attaches the 2 hemispheres (allows left and right hemispheres to communicate)