The Brain: Redemption Quiz

Damage to which of the following puts a person's life in the most danger because it may cause breathing to stop?

• Amygdala

• Thalamus

• Medulla

• Hippocampus

Which of the following brain areas is responsible for regulating hunger and thirst?

• Reticular activating system

• Amygdala

• Hippocampus

• Hypothalamus

Damage to which of following brain structures would affect the processing of new explicit memories?

• Cerebral cortex

• Medulla

• Corpus callosum

• Hippocampus

Stimulation of the amygdala is most likely to have which of the following effects?

• Happiness

• Aggression

• Hunger

• Loss of balance

A split-brain patient has a picture of a dog flashed to his right hemisphere and a cat to his left hemisphere. Which of the following will he be able to verbalize?

• That he saw a dog.

• That he saw a cat.

• That he saw both a dog and a cat.

• That he did not see anything at all.

Which area of the brain permits us make plans and in general decision-making?

• frontal lobe

• parietal lobe

• occipital lobe

• temporal lobe

Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere to the other by the

• medulla.

• corpus callosum.

• reticular formation.

• limbic system.

Which brain area is primarily involved with understanding meaningful speech?

• sensory cortex

• association areas

• Wernicke's area

• hypothalamus

Which brain area is primarily involved with producing speech?

• sensory cortex

• angular gyrus

• Broca's area

• hypothalamus

The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to ________.

• hearing; sensing movement

• seeing; sensing touch

• sensing pleasure; sensing pain

• seeing; hearing