AP Quiz: Brain Structures

The point at which the nerves from the left side of the body cross over into the right side of the brain, and vice versa, is the ______.

• reticular activating system
• pons
• medulla
• cerebellum

Signals from the neurons of which sense are NOT sent to the cortex by the thalamus?

• touch
• hearing
• smell
• taste

Which of the following is the section of the brain located at the rear and bottom of each cerebral hemisphere and contains the visual centers of the brain?

• occipital lobe
• parietal lobe
• temporal lobe
• frontal lobe

The area of the frontal lobe that is devoted to the production of fluent speech is ______ area. 

• Broca’s
• Gall’s
• Wernicke’s
• Korsakoff’s

Which of the following is the upper part of the brain consisting of two cerebral hemispheres and the structures that connect them?

• occipital lobe
• cerebrum
• corpus callosum
• cortex

This area of the brain is responsible for people’s ability to generally attend to certain kinds of information in their surroundings and ignore constant, unchanging information.

• cerebellum
• pons
• reticular formation
• hypothalamus

Which of the following areas of the brain acts as a relay station for incoming sensory information?

• hypothalamus
• thalamus
• amygdala
• cingulate cortex

The area of our brain that can be divided into four regions that play different roles in processing emotional, cognitive, and autonomic information. This area has also been implicated in a variety of psychological and mental disorders including ADHD, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder as well as bipolar disorder.

• hypothalamus
• thalamus
• cingulate cortex
• hippocampus

The outermost part of the brain that most people picture when they think of what the brain looks like is made up of tightly packed neurons and is actually only about one tenth of an inch thick. This recognizable wrinkled surface is know as the _________.

• amygdala
• cortex
• broca’s area
• wernicke’s area

The thick band of neural fibers that literally means “hard body” which allows the left and right hemispheres to communicate is known as the ________.

• cortex
• motor cortex
• corpus callosum
• thalamus