Brain and Biology

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements

• Thalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

Receives sensory input for touch and body position

• Parietal Lobe
• Frontal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Controls hearing, speaking coherently, and comprehension

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

Processes visual information

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

If the words the person uses makes sense, but the person has difficulty speaking, then they have damaged which part of the brain?

• Broca's Area
• Wernicke's Area
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

This part of the brain regulates your hunger, thirst, body temperature. 

• hypothalamus
• Cerebrum
• Amygdala
• reticular formation

Receives sensory information and relays it to the proper part of brain for further processing

• Hypothalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Cerebellum
• Thalamus

Area of cerebrum that allows us to speak

• Broca's Area
• Wernicke's area
• Precentral Gyrus
• Postcentral Gyrus

Which of the following is a function of the occipital lobe?

• contains the visual cortex
• somatosensory
• somato motor control
• taste