Brain quiz-A&P

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

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

• Thalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

Controls hearing, and language comprehension

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

Processes visual information

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

EXTRA CREDIT-think about our vlog on fear!

Imagine that you have stumbled across a secret laboratory where an evil scientist is conducting unauthorized brain research. By altering brain structures, he has created superheroes who have specialized powers or abilities. One of these superheroes is absolutely fearless and willing to undertake extremely dangerous missions. In this case, the brain structure that the scientist MOST likely altered would be

• medulla

• cerebellum

• midbrain

• amygdala

• frontal
• temporal
• occipital
• parietal

• Cerebrum
• Cerebellum
• Brain Stem
• Diencephalon

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