Transcript Brain Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Who Wants to be a
Millionaire???
What Structure of the Brain is
responsible for arousal from sleep?
A. Hypothalamus
C. Thalamus
B. Reticular
Formation
D. Pituitary Gland
Reticular Formation
The impulse that travels down the
axon is known as this:
a. Terminal Potential
b. Action Stimulus
c. Threshold
d. Action Potential
Action Potential
This is made up of fatty cells and
protects the impulse as it travels
through the axon:
a. Neural Coating
b. Axon Protector
c. Myelin Sheath
d. Myelin Coat
Myelin Sheath
This portion of the cerebral
cortex includes the processing
of auditory information
a. The Frontal Lobes
b. The Temporal
Lobes
c. The Occipital
Lobes
d. The Auditory
Cortex
The Temporal
Lobes
.The Brain fences out unwanted
chemicals circulating through the
blood with this
a. Blood Brain Wall
c. Blood Brain Barrier
b. Brain Barrier
d. Neurotransmitter
Filter
Blood Brain
Barrier
When this neurotransmitter is
released into muscles, the muscles
contract:
a. Dopamine
b. Endorphins
c. Serotonin
d. Acetycholine
AcH (acetycholine)
The skeletal and the autonomic
nervous systems are part of this
larger nervous system:
a. Central Nervous
system
b. Peripheral
Nervous System
c. Sympathetic
Nervous system
d. Carbonara
System
Peripheral Nervous
System
This is the minimum amount
of stimulus, either neural or
sensory, a neuron needs to
fire.
a. The all or none
principle
c. The Threshold
b. The minimum action
potential
d. The Stimulus
Satiation Point
The
Threshold!!
Hormones that spark our interest in
sex, hunger and aggression are
sent out through this system
a. Limbic system
b. Endocrine System
c. Neural System
d. Central Nervous
system
The Endocrine System
The principle that states a
neuron will either fire or it will
not
a. Threshold Principle
c. Activating Principle
b. All or none Response
d. Activating Impulse
Requirement
All or None Response
The time it takes between neural
firings is known as this.
a. Threshold
c. Myelin
Period
b. Refractory
Period
d. Period of
Justification
Refractory
Period
Surgically destroying brain
tissue is known as this method
of brain manipulation for
research
a. Brain Imaging
b. Brain Lesioning
c. PET Scanning
d. Lobotomies
Brain Lesioning
This is the most primitive part
of our brain and the most
common to our mammalian
ancestors:
a. The cerebellum
b. The cerebrum
c. The brainstem
d. The thalamus
The Brainstem
All of the following are parts of
the lower level brain structures
EXCEPT:
a. The medulla
b. The hypothalamus
c. The cerebral cortex
d. The Amygdala
The Cerebral
Cortex
This brain imaging technique
shows us the structure not the
function
a. A PET Scan
b. f MRI
c. CAT scan
d. EEG
CAT Scan
This part of the brain is
associated with memories
regarding smell and also helps us
respond with appropriate
emotions regarding fear and
aggression
a. The limbic system
b. The hippocampus
c. The amygdala
d. The hypothalamus
The Amygdala
This is also called the little
police man of the brain,
sending sensory input where it
needs to go.
a. The Thalamus
b. The hypothalamus
c. The Reticular Formation
d. The sensory cortex
The sensory cortex
This “emotional center” is
larger in women than in men
a. The endocrine system
b. The limbic system
c. The hypothalamus
d. The hippocampus
The Limbic System
This “Little Brain” is involved in
coordinating movement and
one of the first areas of the
brain affected by alcohol.
a. The cerebrum
b. The frontal lobe
c. The cerebellum
d. The prefrontal lobe
The Cerebellum
By lesioning this area of the
brain you could get a cat to
starve itself to death.
a. The hippocampus
c. The hypothalamus
b. The limbic system
d. The thalamus
The Hypothalamus
These lobes are associated
with judgment and reasoning
skills as well as goal oriented
behavior
a. Parietal Lobes
b. Temporal Lobes
c. Occipital Lobes
d. Frontal Lobes
The Frontal Lobes
This occupies the largest
amount of space on our
Sensorimotor Cortex
a. The ankle
b. The face
c. The hand
d. The toes
The Face
These lobes are concerned
with receiving visual input
a. Frontal lobes
b. The occipital lobes
c. The parietal
lobes
d. The temporal lobes
The Occipital Lobes
This lobe is considered the
emotional lobe and houses
the sensory cortex.
a. The occipital lobes
c. The temporal lobes
b. The parietal lobes
d. The Frontal Lobes
The Parietal Lobes
This structure encodes visual
information and recodes it so
that it can be processed by
Wernicke’s Area for
comprehension:
a. Broca’s Area
b. Angular Gyrus
c. Occipital Region
d. Cingulate Gyrate
Angular Gyrus
The information from all the
different lobes is put together
into something that makes
sense by this (these)
a. Association areas
b. Neural pathways
c. Axon terminals
d. Dendrites
The Association Areas
This language region is in
charge of language
comprehension
a. Wernicke’s Area
b. Broca’s Area
c. Pavlov’s Area
d. Skinner’s Box
A. Wernicke’s Area
When a person speaks or
calculates this hemisphere
lights up on PET scans.
a. Right Hemisphere
b. Left Hemisphere
c. North Hemisphere
d. South Hemisphere
B. Left Hemisphere
This controls heartbeat and
breathing
a. Thalamus
b. The Medulla
Oblongata
c. The Pituitary Gland
The Cerebellum
The Medulla
Oblongata
This is said to be the memory
“center” of our brain.
a. The hypothalamus
c. The
hippocampus
b. The Amygdala
d. The Thalamus
The Hippocampus
These glands are located
above the kidneys and secrete
norepinephine and adrenaline.
a. The testes
c. The mammaries
b. The ovaries
d. The adrenal glands
The Adrenal Glands
This is the impairment of
language.
a. A stroke
b. Aphasia
c. Amnesia
d. aplasia
Aphasia
Central nervous system
neurons that intervene directly
between the sensory inputs
and motor inputs.
a. Connector
Neurons
b. Communicator
Neurons
c. Interneurons
d. System Bypass
Neurons
Interneurons
This is the endocrine system’s
most important gland. Some
might even call it the “master
gland.”
a. The Hypothalamus
c. The endocrine gland
b. The pituitary
gland
d. The hypocampus
Gland
The Pituitary Gland
This nervous system calms us
down after our body has been
“activated” by the fight or flight
response.
a. Autonomic
Nervous System
c. The Skeletal
Nervous System
b. Parasympathetic Nervous
System
d. Sympathetic
Nervous System
The Parasympathetic
Nervous System
This body movement is not
processed through the
sensorimotor cortex
a. A knee jerk
c. Slapping
someone
b. Throwing a
baseball
d. Taking a bite our of the
“gum brain”
Complete this chart
The Nervous System
Peripheral
Central
Skeletal
a. Autonomic
c. Sympathetic
b. Parasympathetic
d. Antisympathetic
Autonomic
The part of the neuron that
transmits the action potential
a. Synapse
c. dendrite
b. Association areas
d. axon
Axon
Phineas Gage’s personality
dramatically changed after he
suffered damage to this lobe.
a. Frontal
c. Occipital
b. Temporal
d. Parietal
Frontal
Lobe
If you lay one of these out it
would be the size of a
newspaper. (In humans that is.)
a. Cerebellum
c. Cerebral Cortex
b. Cerebrum
d. Left
Hemisphere
Cerebral
Cortex