Unit 1 Topic 1: The Role of the Brain
What is central nervous system?
The CNS is the body's processing centre. It includes the brain and spinal cord.
Which of the following is NOT a common sleep disorder?
A) Insomnia
B) Narcolepsy
C) Synesthesia
D) Sleep apnea
C) Synesthesia
Which type of long term memory stores facts and general knowledge?
A) Procedural memory
B) Episodic memory
C) Semantic memory
D) Working memory
C) Semantic memory
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
What are the names of the four lobes of the brain?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital
Order the following from complete lack of awareness to complete awareness: coma, normal wakefulness, asleep, anaesthetised, daydreaming.
Coma, Anaesthesia, Asleep, Daydreaming, Normal wakefulness
What are the three components of the multi-store model of memory?
Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
You see a boat filled with people. It hasn't sunk, but when you look again, you don't see a single person on board. Why?
Everyone on the boat is marred.
Name 2 of the 4 neuroimaging techniques.
Any two of the following:
Positron emission tomograph (PET)
Magnetic reconance imaging (MRI)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Electroencephalography (EEG)
What two hormones control the sleep-wake cycle?
Melatonin and cortisol
Provide an example of an implicit and explicit memory.
Implicit (information remembered unconsciously and effortlessly) riding a bike, singing along to music
Explicit (information you consciously work to remember) how to do a maths equation, your 5th birthday party
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter 'M'
Name the parts of a neuron:
D ________
A ____
N _________
Dendrites
Axon
Nucleus
What are the two states of sleep?
Non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM)
Rapid eye movement (REM)
What parts of the brain are primarily involved with memory?
Hippocampus and Cerebellum.
There are only three people - a grandfather, father and son.
What the s the key role of Broca's area?
Speech function
Explain the restorative theory of sleep.
Sleep provides time out to help us recover from depleting activities during waking time that use up the body's physical and mental resources.
What is context-dependent memory?
Retrieval cues help trigger the recall of stored information by providing associations linked to the memory. e.g. being in the same environment as when the memory was encoded improves recall.
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness