Category 1
What are chemical messages that travel via neurons to brain?
Neurotransmitter
What provides energy for the fight or flight response?
Adrenal glands
What are dendrites receptors?
The part of neuron that receives chemical messages
What is a synapse?
A gap between neurons
Also called the "outer bark" of the brain.
Cerebral Cortex
What is the axon terminal?
The point where messages leave the neuron
The ___________ lobe is responsible for movement.
Frontal
What part of the brain is responsible for thinking and emotion?
Motor Strip
The _____________ lobe is responsible for vision.
Occipital
What are the gonads?
Refers to both the testes and the ovaries
What is most likely to happen if someone's corpus callosum is cut?
They would not be able to communicate between the left and right side of his/her/their brain.
What creates growth hormone?
Pituitary gland.
What did the curious Case Study of Phineas Gage teach us?
That the one can damage the brain severely and still live
What is the metabolism?
Rate at which body converts food into energy
Someone thumps you on the forehead with a sack of quarters. Which of the following is the most likely reason you would suddenly see spots before your eyes?
The nerves around the frontal lobe temporarily break down or misfire which causes the spots.
What would electrical stimulation do to the motor strip?
It would likely cause an involuntary muscle contraction.
What is responsible for making decisions and controlling personality?
The Frontal Lobe
What is something that could happen if you damaged your most likely happen temporal lobe?
1. Blindness.
2. Personality disorders.
3. Struggle interpreting voices.
Struggle interpreting voices.
The sensory strip is located in the _____________ and registers _________________
parietal lobe, sensations
What does the cerebellum do?
Balance and physical coordination
If someone is skilled at English but failing Calculus, what part of their brain can be responsible for this?
The Left Hemisphere.
What is the primary role of the thalamus?
relay sensation messages from the body to the brain.
The ________________ is responsible for many basic survival functions.
Brain Stem
Mr. McKenna has a tantrum and yells at his APELC student. What part of the brain is his deep-seated anger is being drawn from?
Amygdala
What happens if an individual damages their Broca's area?
Difficulties with speaking and expressive language