Edexcel GCSE Psychology - Simple Brain Recap

A blind person may have experienced damage to her:

• visual cortex
• prefrontal area
• Broca's area
• auditory association area

The four regions of the cerebral cortex are referred to as:

• lesions
• lobes
• pons
• corpus callosum

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

Area of the brain that gives us the opportunity to learn and store complex and abstract info. 

• corpus callosum
• ventricles
• premotor area
• cerebral cortex

This is the region of the brain responsible for critical thinking, decision making, and considering consequences.

• Limbic System
• Synapses
• Neurons
• Prefrontal Cortex

Name the lobe that appears pink in this image.

• Frontal
• Parietal
• Temporal
• Occipital

What is the main control center of the body that contains the brain and spinal cord?

• Peripheral nervous system
• Central nervous system
• Autonomic nervous system
• Somatic nervous system

What is this?

• Cerebrum
• Cerebellum
• Brain Stem
• Diencephalon

Controls hearing, and language comprehension

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

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

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