Psychology Unit Two Review

Receives sensory information and relays it to the proper part of brain for further processing

• Hypothalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Cerebellum
• Thalamus

Sympathetic & parasympathetic responses are part of the ____ nervous system

• somatic
• autonomic
• peripheral
• central

Conscious activities are controlled by the ____ nervous system

• somatic
• autonomic
• peripheral
• central

Unconscious activities are controlled by the ____ nervous system

• somatic
• autonomic
• peripheral
• central

The brain and spinal cord are part of the ____ nervous system

• somatic
• autonomic
• peripheral
• central

The gap that a message has to cross to get from one neuron to the other is called the _____

• synapse
• dendrite
• axon
• nucleus 

What are the two main divisions of the nervous system? 

• The brain and spinal cord
• The central nervous and peripheral nervous system 
• The neurons and the dendrites
• The cerebrum and the medulla

The _____ is the basic building block of the nervous system

• Axon
• Neuron
• Soma
• Terminal Branch

In a split brain procedure, what part of the brain is severed?

• Corpus Callosum
• Left Hemisphere
• Right Hemisphere
• Frontal Lobe

The corpus callosum is responsible for

• regulating body temperature

• storing nutrients

• moving information from one hemisphere of the brain to the other

• all of the above