Unit 2 test (brain extra)

Question 1

Serotinin

Answer 1

neurotransmitter that helps regulate sleep, moods/emotions

Question 2

Dendrite

Answer 2

The part of the neuron that receives messages from other neurons

Question 3

Axon

Answer 3

The part of the neuron that sends messages to other neurons

Question 4

Neurons

Answer 4

Cells in nervous system

Question 5

Dendrite to Axon terminal

Answer 5

direction of the neural impulse within one neuron.

Question 6

Dendrite, Cell body, Axon

Answer 6

direction an electrical signal moves

Question 7

Synapse

Answer 7

microscopic gap between neurons

Question 8

Neurotransmitter

Answer 8

chemical messenger

Question 9

Main divisions of the nervous system

Answer 9

peripheral and central

Question 10

The central nervous system made up of

Answer 10

The brain and spinal cord

Question 11

Cerebellum main function

Answer 11

muscle coordination

Question 12

Medulla oblongata (responsibilities)

Answer 12

Heartbeat, breathing, and blood pressure

Question 13

Frontal lobe (Controls)

Answer 13

Abstract thought and emotional control

Question 14

Autonomic nervous system

Answer 14

Automatic functions of the body/ involuntary response

Question 15

Temporal Lobe

Answer 15

Controls hearing, and language comprehension

Question 16

Occipital lobe

Answer 16

Visual processing
-Deals with vision
contains visual cortex

Question 17

Peripheral nervous system

Answer 17

The part of the nervous system that consists of nerves that branch out from the CNS (central nervous system) and connect to other body parts

Question 18

Cerebellum (Complex def)

Answer 18

This area is in charge of balance and coordinating movements.

Question 19

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 19

Wrinkled part of the brain’s surface where the body processes information

Question 20

Parietal Lobe

Answer 20

Possesses the Sensory Cortex

Question 21

Broca’s Area

Answer 21

Area of cerebrum that allows us to speak (Speech production)

Question 22

Frontal lobe (complex def)

Answer 22

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

Question 23

A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe. What might happen to her?

Answer 23

blindness

Question 24

If an organism did not have a well-developed frontal lobe, like a grasshopper, what functions would it have issues with?

Answer 24

Problem solving

Question 25

Amygdala (complex def)

Answer 25

part of the Brain plays an important role in emotions, especially fear

Question 26

Hippocampus

Answer 26

involved in the processing and storage of memories.

Question 27

Hypothalamus

Answer 27

Controls and regulates Body temperature, Sexual Arousal, Hunger, Thirst, Endocrine System

Question 28

Frontal lobe contains

Answer 28

Motor cortex and Broca’s area

Question 29

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 29

unable to make movements to talk.
-Damage to Broca’s area

Question 30

Temporal lobe contains

Answer 30

Wernicke’s area

Question 31

Wernicke’s area

Answer 31

interprets written and spoken speech.

Question 32

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 32

unable to understand language: the syntax and grammar jumbled.

Question 33

Sensory cortex

Answer 33

receives incoming touch sensations from rest of the body.