Biological Bases of Behavior

What part of the brain is Letter G pointing to?

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

Damage to the cerebellum would most affect the career of

• an architect
• a teacher
• an athlete
• a librarian

A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe.  What might happen to her?

• reduced planning abilities
• deafness
• coma
• blindness

A tumor on the temporal lobe would most affect the career of 

• an architect
• a musician
• a professor
• a researcher

The split-brain procedure involves the cutting of this

• Cerebral Cortex
• Cerebellum
• Corpus Callosum
• Caudate Nucleus

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

• Hypothalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Cerebellum
• Thalamus

If you damage this brain structure, you won't be able to form new memories.

• Hypothalamus

• Hippocampus

• Amygdala

• Thalamus

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

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

This part of the brain controls hearing, and language comprehension.

• Frontal Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

Breathing and heartbeat are controlled by the

• pons
• parietal lobe
• hippocampus
• medulla