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26 Cards in this Set
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What are the three key structures of the hindbrain?
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Medulla
Pons Cerebellum |
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What structure of the brain is responsible for life survival functions (breathing and heart rate)?
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Medulla
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What structure of the brain is responsible for respiration, movement, walking, sleeping, and dreaming?
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Pons
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What structure of the brain is responsible for coordination of fine muscular movements, balance and some aspects of perception and cognition?
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Cerebellum
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What division of the brain regulates basic movement patterns (eating, drinking, etc), sleep and arousal?
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Midbrain
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What structure of the brain runs through the hindbrain, midbrain, and brainstem and screens incoming information and controls arousal?
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Reticular formation
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What structure of the brain is responsible for the collection of upper-level brain structures?
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Forebrain
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What are the structures of the forebrain?
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Thalamus
Hypothalamus Limbic system Cerebral cortex |
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What structure of the brain is responsible for relaying sensory messages to the cerebral cortex?
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Thalamus
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What structure of the brain is responsible for emotions, drives, and regulating the body’s internal environment?
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Hypothalamus
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What structure of the brain is an interconnected group of forebrain structures involved with emotions, drives, and memory?
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Limbic System
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What structures are in the limbic system?
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Hippocampus
Amygdala Hypothalamus |
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What structure of the brain is involved in establishing long-term memory?
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Hippocampus
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What structure of the brain is involved in memory and emotion, particularly aggression?
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Amygdala
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What structure of the brain monitors blood to determine the condition of the body?
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Hypothalamus
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What structure of the brain is a thin surface layer on the left and right cerebral hemispheres regulating most complex behavior, including sensations, motor control, and higher mental processes?
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Cerebral cortex
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What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex?
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Frontal
Parietal Occipital Temporal |
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What lobe of the brain is involved in movement and thinking?
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Frontal lobe
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What lobe of the brain is involved in touch sensations and perceiving spatial relationships?
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Parietal lobe
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What lobe of the brain is involved in visual perception and processing?
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Occipital lobe
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What lobe of the brain is involved in processing sounds, including speech, and possibly involved in long-term memory?
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Temporal lobe
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What lobe of the brain receives and coordinates messages from other lobes and is responsible for motor control, speech production, and higher functions, such as thinking, personality, emotion, and memory?
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Frontal lobe
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Who is Phineas Gage?
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Miner who suffered a frontal lobe injury
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What lobe of the brain is responsible for interpreting bodily sensations?
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Parietal lobe
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What lobe of the brain is responsible for audition, language comprehension, memory, and some emotion control?
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Temporal lobe
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What is the bundle of nerve fibers connecting the brain’s left and right hemispheres?
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Corpus callosum
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