BRAIN PARTS

Alicia suffered a brain disease that destroyed major portions of her temporal lobes. Alicia is most likely to suffer some loss of:

• AUDITORY PERCEPTION
• THIRST AND HUNGER
• PAIN SENSATIONS
• MUSCULAR COORDINATION

Seeing is to hearing as the ________ lobes are to the _______ lobes. 

• FRONTAL , TEMPORAL
• OCCIPITAL, PARIETAL
• FRONTAL, PARIETAL
• OCCIPITAL, TEMPORAL

Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex? 

• THALAMUS
• MEDULLA
• AMYGDALA
• HIPPOCAMPUS

After Greg's serious motorcycle accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum. Greg is most likely to have difficulty: 

• EXPERIENCING INTENSE EMOTIONS
• READING A BOOK
• PLAYING HIS GUITAR
• TASTING HIS FAVORITE FOODS

Moruzzi and Magoun caused a cat to lapse into a coma by severing neural connections between the cortex and the,the Brain area which controls our alertness and sleep mechanism

• RETICULAR FORMATION
• HYPOTHALAMUS
• CEREBELLUM
• MEDULLA

.) A young man was referred to a neurosurgeon after his frequent bouts of aggression could not be controlled. Diagnostic tests found an inoperable tumor in which location?

• PONS
• AMYGDALA
• PITUITARY GLAND
• BROCA'S AREA

A loss of physical coordination and balance is most likely to result from damage to the:

• HYPOTHALAMUS
• CEREBELLUM
• CORPUS CALLOSUM
• PONS

THE PARIETAL OBES ARE TO THE_________ AS THE OCCIPITAL LOBES ARE TO:

• HEARING AND SPEAKING
• SENSING TOUCH AND SEEING
• TASTING AND SMELLING
• SPEAKING AND SEEING

THE BRAIN AND THE SPINAL CHORD MAKE UP THE __________NERVOUS SYSTEM

• CENTRAL
• PERIPHERAL
• AUTONOMIC
• SOMATIC

As you scan this question, the _______ is relaying information from the eyes to cortical areas of vision. 

• THALAMUS
• RETICULAR FORMATION
• HYPOTHALAMUS
• AMYGDALA