A Review of BRAIN STRUCTURES FUNCTIONS The Brain
A Review of BRAIN STRUCTURES & FUNCTIONS
The Brain • Place the following methods of studying the brain into one of two categories: • EEG • CT Scan • MRI • Lesion • PET Scan • f. MRI
The Brain ANSWER • • FUNCTION EEG Lesion PET Scan f. MRI STRUCTURE • CT Scan • MRI
The Brain • This method of studying the brain uses magnets to create a 3 D image of the brain.
The Brain ANSWER • MRI
The Brain • This method of studying the brain records the brain electrical activity to show which area is functioning.
The Brain ANSWER • EEG
The Brain • This method of studying the brain uses radioactive glucose to study which area of the brain is working the hardest on certain tasks.
The Brain ANSWER • PET Scan
The Brain • Purposely destroying a portion of an animal’s brain to find out about its function.
The Brain ANSWER • Lesion
The Brain • Person whose case study informed scientists that perhaps our personality and behavior were tied to our frontal lobes of the brain.
The Brain ANSWER • Phineas Gage
The Brain • Study of the bumps on a person’s skull that was thought to reveal what the different areas of the brain did. Found to be unscientific but did lead to the idea of localization.
The Brain ANSWER • Phrenology
The Brain • When JFK was shot he was killed immediately due to this part of his brain being destroyed which governs over automatic functions like heartbeat and breathing.
The Brain ANSWER • Medulla
The Brain • This serves as the brain’s post office delivering incoming sensory information to the portions of the brain that can best make sense of it.
The Brain ANSWER • Thalamus
The Brain • Everytime you walk or ride a bike smoothly you are successfully using this part of your brain.
The Brain ANSWER • Cerebellum
The Brain • When you’re being overly emotional, then you must be using this part of your brain that is control of emotions.
The Brain ANSWER • Limbic System
The Brain • When one area of this was stimulated a wolverine cowered in the corner of its cage seemingly scared of nothing. When another area of this was stimulated the wolverine acted ferociously attacking anything in site.
The Brain ANSWER • Amygdala
The Brain • In order to fit the cerebral cortex in our skulls it has to be…
The Brain ANSWER • wrinkled
The Brain • This is the outer layer of the brain that performs our higher level thinking skills and separates us from the other animals.
The Brain ANSWER • Cerebral Cortex
The Brain • This is the pleasure center of the brain that rewards us for doing the things we need to keep our species alive.
The Brain ANSWER • Hypothalamus
The Brain • Name the Lobes of the Brain 2. 3. 1. 4.
The Brain ANSWER 1. 2. 3. 4. Frontal Lobe Parietal Lobe Occipital Lobe Temporal Lobe
The Brain • The fact that you are viewing this Power. Point right now is evidence that this area of the cerebral cortex is working.
The Brain ANSWER • Occipital Lobe
The Brain • Listening to your I-Pod means that you are using this area of your brain to hear it.
The Brain ANSWER • Temporal Lobe
The Brain • Any time you sense someone touching your shoulder it is registered in this lobe of the brain.
The Brain ANSWER • Parietal Lobe
The Brain • Many people believe the reason adolescents make poor decisions is because this area of the brain designated for planning and judgment is not yet fully developed.
The Brain ANSWER • Frontal Lobe
The Brain • The 4 F’s of the Hypothalamus are:
The Brain ANSWER • • Food Fight Flight Fornication
The Brain • Put the following steps of reading out loud in order: • A. Broca’s Area produces the speech and sends it to the motor cortex • B. The visual cortex in the occipital lobe registers the words you see on the page. • C. Wernicke’s Area makes sense of what you just read. • D. Angular Gyrus coverts visual cues into auditory sounds.
The Brain ANSWER • B-D-C-A
The Brain • The term that describes the belief that different areas of the brain have different functions.
The Brain ANSWER • Localization
The Brain • The term for the different halves of the brain having different abilities.
The Brain ANSWER • Laterization
The Brain • Motor cortex is organized according to how a body part is.
The Brain ANSWER • Complex
The Brain Sensory cortex is organized according to how a body part is.
The Brain ANSWER • Sensitive
The Brain • Any type of damage to your language abilities is known as…
The Brain ANSWER • Aphasia
The Brain • The fact that other parts of the brain will pick up the function of an injured area shows the idea of is at work.
The Brain ANSWER • Plasticity
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