Nervous System Functions

What does the Frontal lobe do? (a)  

• process vision

• process sound

• integrate sensory information

• abstract thinking and planning

What does the temporal lobe do? (a)  

• process touch

• planning & abstract thinking

• process sound and speech

• allows you to see

What does the parietal lobe do? (a)  

• sends motor commands

• allows you to see

• allows you to hear

• integrates sensory information

What does the amygdala do? (a)  

• controls heart rate

• directs sensory information

• regulates body temperature

• processes emotion

What does the cingulate gyrus do?

• secretes hormones

• processes fear & helps to avoid pain

• transfers short-term memory to long-term

• regulates hunger

What is the Corpus Callosum?

• the reward pathway

• a fluid-filled area of the brain

• bundle of white matter between hemispheres

• where sensory information is relayed

If someone is breaking into your house, this division of your nervous system might be activated:

• Parasympathetic division.

• Sympathetic division.

• Fight or flight response.

• Both b and c.

• All of the above.

In a neuron, cell processes that receive information and carry it to the cell body are called

• Dendrites

• Axons

• Cell bodies

• Nissl bodies

Axons

• May branch at their ends to form collateral axons.

• Appear as single processes from each neuron.

• Are often surrounded by a myelin sheath.

• Carry action potentials away from the cell body.

• All of the above.

Voluntary control of skeletal muscles is provided by the:

• Somatic nervous system.

• Autonomic nervous system.

• Sympathetic nervous system.

• Parasympathetic nervous system.

• None of the above.