Module 11 APP
The medulla it is to the control of ... as this cerebellum is to the control of...
Breathing; walking
A gymnast falls and hits her head on the floor. She attempts to continue practicing but has trouble maintaining balance. What part of her brain has probably been affected?
Cerebellum
Ellen volunteers during her AP psychology class to try to balance a yardstick unheard two fingers. While her eyes are open, she finds the task quite easy. However, when she closes her eyes, she finds the same task almost impossible. Which brain region relies on visual information in coordinating are voluntary movements?
Cerebellum
In which brain structure or nerves from the left side of the brain routed to the right side of the body?
Cerebellum
Animal research has revealed a general reward system that triggers the release of the neurotransmitter...
Dopamine
Sleep researchers who are interested in brainwave activity are likely to use which kind a brain scan?
EEG
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)
Damage to which of the following brain structures would affect the processing of new explicit memories?
Hippocampus
Which of the following is the component of the limbic system that plays in essential role in the processing of new memories?
Hippocampus
Thanking about sex (in your brain cerebral cortex) can stimulate a region of the limbic system to secrete hormones. These hormones trigger you're the pituitary gland to influence hormones released by other glands in the body. Which brain region influences the endocrine system?
Hypothalamus
Which of the following brain areas is responsible for regulating hunger and thirst?
Hypothalamus
Severing a cat reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to
Lapse into a coma
The neural system located at the border between the brain and cerebral hemispheres is known as the...
Limbic system
The best way to detect in large fluid filled brain regions in some patients who have schizophrenia is to use a...
MRI
What is the main difference between an MRI and an fMRI?
MRI scans show structural details of the brain, fMRI scans show structure and activity levels
Damage to which of the following puts a persons life in the most danger because it may cause breathing to stop?
Medulla
Your life would be most immediately threatened if you suffered destruction of the...
Medulla
Addictive drug cravings are likely to be associated with reward centers in the...
Nucleus accumbens
Which of the following scanning techniques measures glucose consumption as an indicator of brain activity?
PET
The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain underlies the usefulness of a...
PET scan
After Cato's serious motorcycle accident, doctors detect damage in his cerebellum. Cato is most likely to have difficulty...
Playing his guitar
Which of the following brain structures in the brainstem helps coordinate movement and lies above the medulla?
Pons
When the cats amygdala is electrically stimulated The cat prepares to attack by hissing and arching it's back. Which division of the autonomic nervous system is activated by such stimulations?
Sympathetic
Which Brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex?
Thalamus
Which brain structure receives information from all senses except smell?
Thalamus
Which of the following is sometimes referred to as the brain sensory switchboard, because it directs incoming sensory messages (with the exception of smell) to their proper places in the brain?
Thalamus
Your ability to experience physical sensations is most likely to be disrupted by damage to your...
Thalamus
To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat Violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulated the rats...
amygdala
Which neural center in the limbic system plays a central role in emotions such as aggression and fear?
amygdala
A brain lesion refers to... of Brain tissue.
destruction
To identify which specific brain areas are most active during a particular mental task researchers would be most likely to make use of a...
fMRI
Olds and Milner are located reward centers in the rain structure known as the...
hypothalamus
The brain structure that provides a major link between the nervous system and the endocrine system is the
hypothalamus
The secretion of the pituitary gland are most directly regulated by the...
hypothalamus
If professor freeborn lesions the amygdala of a laboratory rat, the rat will most likely become...
less aggressive
Which of the following techniques would surgeons use in mapping the areas of the brain responsible for specific activities, such as movement or speech?
positron emission tomography (PET)
Stimulation of the amygdala is most likely to have which of the following effects?
Aggression
The sequence of brain regions from the evolutionary oldest to newest is...
Brainstem; limbic system; cerebral cortex
Which region of your brain stem plays a role in arousing you to a state of alertness when someone nearby mention to you her name?
Reticular Formation
The reticular formation is located in the
brain stem
We are usually least consciously aware of the process in functions of which brain structure?
brain stem
The "little brain" attached to the rear of the brainstem is called the...
cerebellum
Surgical destruction of brain tissue is called a...
lesion
