Bio-Psychology: The Brain

If a head injury results in someone no longer being able to hear, which part of the brain may have been damaged?

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

When Joe speaks, the words he uses make no sense. For example he asked his teacher, "Can I cat to the kitchen go?" Which area is probably damaged?

• Wernicke's Area

• Corpus Callosum

• Broca's Area

• Hypothalamus

Name the lobe that appears pink in this image.

• Frontal
• Parietal
• Temporal
• Occipital

Name the lobe that appears yellow in this image.

• Frontal
• Parietal
• Temporal
• Occipital

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

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

processes sensory information except for smell

• hypothalamus

• thalamus

• pons

• cerebellum

controls our fear response

• cerebellum

• amygdala

• thalamus

• hypothalamus

Enables us to be balanced when we walk

• cerebral cortex

• cerebellum

• thalamus

• motor cortex

This part of our brain is responsible for hunger, thirst, aggression, and sexual drives

• Amygdala

• Hypothalamus

• Hippocampus

• Reticular Activating System

What does Broca's area do?

• Processing language understanding.

• Allows production of speech.

• Makes associations between a place and name.

• Makes associations between a name and a face.