AP Psychology Brain Structures

To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate that rats?

Amygdala

Someone who has difficulty speaking after a stroke is suffering from which of the following?

Aphasia

The process of anticipating that you will be punished for misbehaving takes place within the

Association areas

The sequence of brain regions from the evolutionary oldest to newest is?

Brainstem, Limbic system, cerebral cortex

The medulla is to the control of _______ as the cerebellum is to the control of__________

Breathing; walking

Which brain area is primarily involved in controlling speech?

Brocas area

Which kind of psychological researcher would be most interested in the research question "Do people lose most of their cerebral cortex in an accident still exhibit signs of consciousness.?"

Cognitive Neuroscientist

Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere to the other by the

Corpus Callosum

Split-brain patients have had their ________ surgically cut.

Corpus Callosum

Neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum in human patients in order to reduce

Epileptic Seizures

The brain structure that provides a major link between the nervous system and the endocrine system is the?

Hypothalamus

Severing a cats reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to

Lapse in a coma

Surgical destruction of brain tissue is called a(n)

Lesion

Recent brain research contradicts previously held beliefs, indicating that new neurons are actually formed in the brain. What is this process called?

Neurogenesis

A PET scan of a patient looking at a photograph of a painting would most likely indicate high levels of activity in which brain structure?

Occipital lobes

Which region of the brain will a fMRI show as active when a person is looking at a photo?

Occipital lobes

The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain underlies the usefulness of a(n)?

PET scan

The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain?

Plasticity

When Stoyka was a child, a brain disease required the surgical removal of her left cerebral hemisphere. Stoyka is now a successful high school student who lives a normal life. Her success best illustrates the importance of

Plasticity

After Kato's serious motorcycle accident, doctors, detected damage to his cerebellum. Kato is most likely to have difficulty?

Playing his guitar

One function of the glial cell is to?

Provide nutrients to interneurons

Which region of your brainstem plays a role in arousing you to a state of alertness when someone nearby mentions your name?

Reticular Formation

The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to______.

Seeing; Hearing

Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people's ability to

Speak fluently

When the cat's amygdala is electrically stimulated the cat prepares to attack by hissing and arching its back. Which division of the autonomic nervous system is activated by such stimulation?

Sympathetic

The auditory hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in which brain area?

Temporal Lobes

Which brain structure receives information from all the senses except smell?

Thalamus

Researchers use dichotic listening tasks to investigate right-left differences in an intact brain. In this task a different verbal stimulus is presented simultaneously to each ear. Findings suggest that participants more quickly recall information heard by the right ear. This suggests that?

The left hemisphere is dominant in language processing

If Professor Kosiba lesions the amygdala of a laboratory rat, the rat will most likely become

Wernickes Area

Which brain area is primarily involved with understanding and producing meaningful speech?

Wernickes area

In creating more effective treatments for pain, researchers would use which of the following techniques for identifying regions of the brain that handle pain?

functional MRI (fMRI)

to trigger a persons hand to make a fist. Jose Delgado stimulated the individuals

motor cortex

Direct stimulation of the motor cortex would be most likely to result in

movement of the mouth and lips.

Consciousness is

our awareness of ourselves and our environment