The Nervous System | Topic 2

Question 1

What is the Central Nervous System composed of?

Answer 1

The brain and spinal cord

Question 2

What is the Central Nervous
System is the site of?

Answer 2

Neural integration and processing

Question 3

What are the lobes of the Cerebrum/Cerebral Cortex?

Answer 3

The Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe and, Temporal Lobe (FPOT)

Question 4

What does the Frontal Lobe do?

Answer 4

Conscious thought
Intelligence, memory & personality
Voluntary muscle movements
Broca’s area (language production)

Question 5

What does the Parietal Lobe do?

Answer 5

Somatosensory functions
Touch
Taste
Processes information about body
position

Question 6

What does the Occipital Lobe do?

Answer 6

Processes visual information

Question 7

What does the Temporal Lobe do?

Answer 7

Auditory reception (hearing)
Wernicke’s area (language
comprehension)

Question 8

What does the Hypothalamus do?

Answer 8

Regulates Homeostasis (hunger, thirst, temperature control)

Question 9

What does the Pituitary Gland do?

Answer 9

Regulates Hormone release