Question 1

Your conscious awareness of your own name and self-identity depends primarily on the normal function of your

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Cerebral Cortex

Question 2

The benefits of brain plasticity are most clearly demonstrated in

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children who have had a cerebral hemisphere surgically removed (remember the younger a brain is the more plastic it is)

Question 3

In Roger Sperry's view, the brain creates and controls the mind, which in turn influences the brain. Sperry understands the mind and brain as a

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holistic system

Question 4

*A limbic system reward center located in front of the hypothalamus is called the

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nucleus accumbens

Question 5

when a person speaks, brain waves and bloodflow are especially likely to reveal increased activity in the

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left hemisphere

Question 6

Left handedness is _____ common among males than females, and in both right and left-handers the left hemispere tends to be slightly _______ than the right hemisphere.

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More; larger

Question 7

Those whose corpus callosum is surgically severed are said to be patients with

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split blain (real f****d up right? they cut the brain in half by severing the corpus callosum- thick ropes of neural transmitters in the center of the brain- to help with seizures or related issues)

Question 8

Severing a cat's reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to...

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lapse into a coma

Question 9

Physical exercise, sleep, and exposure to non stressful but stimulating environments are more likely to promote

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neurogenesis

Question 10

the neural center in the limbic system that processes explicit memories for storage is called the

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hippocampus

Question 11

the occipital lobes are to _______ as the temporal lobes are to _________

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seeing; hearingOccipital=Occulartemporal = temples (right above the ear)

Question 12

the reticular formation is a nerve network that travels through the

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brainstem

Question 13

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

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brainstem, limbic system, cerebral cortex

Question 14

*Experiencing loss of sense in taste due to a brain tumor that caused damage to a structure located at the top of a brainstem. This structure is known as the

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thalamus

Question 15

Mathematical and spatial reasoning capacities are especially likely to be linked with association areas in the

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Parietal lobes

Question 16

In a clinical trial of a brain-computer interface with paralyzed humans, a 25-year-old man constructed shapes on a computer screen by activating neurons in his

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motor cortex (also an example of brain computer communication)

Question 17

Which lobes of the brain receive the input that enables you to feel someone scratching your back

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Parietal

Question 18

The process of forming new neurons within the brain is called

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neurogenesis

Question 19

brain plasticity may contribute to the effectiveness of

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constraint-induced therapy

Question 20

*the motor cortex is located in the ________ lobes.

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frontal

Question 21

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

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epileptic seizures

Question 22

the most extensive regions of the brain are involved in higher mental functions such as memory and reasoning. These regions are called the

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association areas

Question 23

Damage to the cerebellum would most likely lead to

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decrease in fine motor skill such as those involved in playing guitar or writing.

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