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WorksheetsAP Quiz: Brain Structures
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
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Class
Date
1.
The point at which the nerves from the left side of the body cross over into the right side of the brain, and vice versa, is the ______.
a)
reticular activating system
b)
pons
c)
medulla
d)
cerebellum
2.
Signals from the neurons of which sense are NOT sent to the cortex by the thalamus?
a)
touch
b)
hearing
c)
smell
d)
taste
3.
Which of the following is the section of the brain located at the rear and bottom of each cerebral hemisphere and contains the visual centers of the brain?
a)
occipital lobe
b)
parietal lobe
c)
temporal lobe
d)
frontal lobe
4.
The area of the frontal lobe that is devoted to the production of fluent speech is ______ area.
a)
Broca’s
b)
Gall’s
c)
Wernicke’s
d)
Korsakoff’s
5.
Which of the following is the upper part of the brain consisting of two cerebral hemispheres and the structures that connect them?
a)
occipital lobe
b)
cerebrum
c)
corpus callosum
d)
cortex
6.
This area of the brain is responsible for people’s ability to generally attend to certain kinds of information in their surroundings and ignore constant, unchanging information.
a)
cerebellum
b)
pons
c)
reticular formation
d)
hypothalamus
7.
Which of the following areas of the brain acts as a relay station for incoming sensory information?
a)
hypothalamus
b)
thalamus
c)
amygdala
d)
cingulate cortex
8.
The area of our brain that can be divided into four regions that play different roles in processing emotional, cognitive, and autonomic information. This area has also been implicated in a variety of psychological and mental disorders including ADHD, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder as well as bipolar disorder.
a)
hypothalamus
b)
thalamus
c)
cingulate cortex
d)
hippocampus
9.
The outermost part of the brain that most people picture when they think of what the brain looks like is made up of tightly packed neurons and is actually only about one tenth of an inch thick. This recognizable wrinkled surface is know as the _________.
a)
amygdala
b)
cortex
c)
broca’s area
d)
wernicke’s area
10.
The thick band of neural fibers that literally means “hard body” which allows the left and right hemispheres to communicate is known as the ________.
a)
cortex
b)
motor cortex
c)
corpus callosum
d)
thalamus
11.
Life sustaining functions such as heartbeat, breathing, and swallowing are controlled by which structure?
a)
pons
b)
cerebellum
c)
hypothalamus
d)
medulla
12.
Which of the following brain structures is responsible for keeping you from falling out of your chair during this quiz? It also instrumental in learned reflexes, skills, and habits becoming automatic.
a)
pons
b)
medulla
c)
cerebellum
d)
hypothalamus
13.
This area of the brain is responsible for keeping you awake and alert...and is also responsible for arousal.
a)
hypothalamus
b)
reticular activating system
c)
cerebellum
d)
medulla
14.
This area processes information for the skin and internal body receptors for touch, temperature, and body position is known as which of the following?
a)
primary auditory cortex
b)
primary motor cortex
c)
somatosensory cortex
d)
frontal lobe
15.
Information from our body can be transmitted to both sides of the brain or bilaterally, if information were to only be transmitted to the same side of the brain such as taste and olfaction it can be referred to as which of the following terms?
a)
spatial neglect
b)
aphasia
c)
ipsilaterally
d)
lateralization
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