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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