AP Psychology Mapping the Brain

What is the purpose of the corpus callosum?

• Send information from one hemisphere of the brain to the other hemisphere.

• Production of language.

• Allows you to see.

• Processes your glands.

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.

Which of the following hemispheric specializations is not correct?

• left hemisphere- language production

• right hemisphere- spatial skills

• left hemisphere- emotion recognition

• right hemisphere- creativity

If a split brain patient were have an image flashed to their right hemisphere (left visual field), then

• the patient would be able to tell you what they saw.

• the patient would be able to use their left hand to unconsciously draw the image.

• the patient would be able to use their right hand to unconsciously draw the image.

• The patient would have no way to identify what they saw.

An electroencephalogram allows a researcher to understand ___.

• different stages of sleep.

• see structure of the brain.

• determine specific areas of brain activity.

• produces an image to indicate activity of the brain.

A positron emission tomography (PET scan) allows a researcher to

• map out brain activity by taking pictures hot spots of cellular activity.

• determine what type of brain wave an individual is producing.

• take pictures to product a 3D image of the brain.

• Uses x-rays to produce a structure image of the brain.

An MRI allows a researcher to

• Compare a healthy brain to a non-healthy brain.

• Indicate areas of the brain that breaks down glucouse.

• Find brain waves responsible for different stages of sleep.

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This is a marriage between a PET scan and a MRI machine.

• fMRI

• tMRI

• aMRI

• pMRI

The first case study of HM dealt with

• personality changes

• severing his corpus callosum

• damage to Broca's and Wernicke's areas

• removal of his hippocampus and struggles with long term memory.

Paul Broca studied a case study named "Tan." Tan was interesting because

• his personality changed due to a stroke.

• damage to his brain limited him to only say Tan

• Due to a stroke, Tan had a difficult time in forming new long term memories.

• Tan had a stroke and damaged an area of the brain that produced melatonin and Tan could not go to sleep.