- 1. Phinneus Gage's self-control and behavior became erratic (crazy) when a railroad spike pierced this lobe.
A) Frontal
B) Parietal
C) Occipital
D) Temporal
- 2. This area of the body has many nerve endings that are sensitive to stimuli (hot, cold, pin pricks, etc.)
A) Back of neck
B) Gastroc area
C) Finger tip
D) Upper Arm
- 3. This area has low sensitivity to stimuli.
A) Forearm
B) Toes
C) Finger tip
D) Tongue
- 4. Nerves send signals to and from the brain throughout the body
A) False
B) True
- 5. A person with a split corpus callosum would look at this picture and say that he saw a...
A) Man, because the speech center of the brain is on the left hemisphere.
B) A woman because the speech center of the brain is on the righ hemisphere
C) He would say that he saw a man and a woman
- 6. This part of the brain helps the two hemispheres communicate with each other.
A) Corpus Callosum
B) Occipital
C) Grey Matter
D) Temporal Lobe
- 7. If you received a strong whack to the back of the head, what might happen?
A) Vision loss
B) Speech loss
C) Hearing loss
D) Loss of self-control
- 8. Neurons can regenerate if they die.
A) True
B) False
- 9. Why would insurance companies charge people less once they turn 25?
- 10. Sally is doing a reaction time test. She does 100 trials of pressing a button when a red "x" appears on the screen. What might you expect her average to be?
A) 525 milliseconds
B) 960 milliseconds
C) 25 seconds
D) 110 milliseconds
E) 255 milliseconds
- 11. Bill has not studied all week for a vocabulary test. A few minutes before the test, he looks over the list of 20 words (which he had never seen before). How many would you expect Bill to get correct on the test? Explain why you think this.
- 12. What causes people with muscular sclerosis to lose control of some of their muscles and have slower reaction times or difficulty with basic movements?
- 13. If you suffered from depression, the doctor might tell you this was low?
A) Serotonin levels
B) Nitrogen levels
C) Hemoglobin levels
D) Glucose levels
E) Gammaglobulin levels
- 14. Explain why your reaction time on a stroop test is slower than that on a simple reaction time test.
- 15. Billy's mom is worried that her son may have a brain tumor. He is having trouble with his vision and sometimes sees double or can't tell how close or far away things are. In what lobe of his brain might he have a tumor?
A) Brain Stem
B) Occipital
C) Frontal
D) Parietal
E) Temporal
- 16. In what stage of development do brain chemicals cause dramatic behavior changes?
A) Childhood
B) Infancy
C) Adulthood
D) Adolescence
E) Pre-Natal
- 17. In what stage does the brain develop the most, then get shaped by pruning?
A) Childhood
B) Pre-Natal
C) Infancy
D) Adulthood
- 18. Explain why the brain goes through a pruning process.
- 19. After having a stroke, Wilma has been unable to use her right arm and cannot taste food on the right side of her mouth. Which hemisphere has been affected?
A) Right Hemisphere
B) Occipital Lobe
C) Left Hemisphere
D) Frontal Lobe
- 20. The other day my daughter came home with a booklet from the babysitter. Each page of the booklet had a different material to touch. Some of the pages have sandpaper, others have a silky cloth, and others have a bumpy cardboard. Each page has a different type of material to touch and feel. Which area of the brain is this helping to develop?
A) Cerebellum
B) Occipital Lobe
C) Parietal Lobe
D) Frontal Lobe
E) Temporal Lobe
- 21. A very creative person might be referred to as...
A) Frontal Lobed
B) Temporal Lobed
C) Right brained
D) Left brained
- 22. You meet an older person at church. You see that he is very shaky and his head and hands always seem to be moving. What might he suffer from?
A) Depression
B) Hodgkins
C) Melatonin loss
D) Parkinsons
- 23. Explain why teenagers, whose brains are not fully developed, often make decisions without thinking about the consequenses. What lobe or lobes of the brain are not fully developed?
- 24. The space between neurons where connections occur is called..
A) a synapse
B) a serotonin
C) an axon
D) a dendrite
- 25. What advice would you give to parents if they want to raise smart kids?
- 26. A person who was not afraid to walk on the side of a 30 story building might have trouble with this area of the brain.
A) Amygdala
B) Hippocampus
C) Pons
D) Hypothalamus
- 27. Your breathing, digestion, and heart rate might stop if you had damage to this area.
A) Parietal Lobe
B) Temporal Lobe
C) Brain Stem
D) Occipital Lobe
- 28. Memory is controlled by many parts of the brain; damage to this area would impact your long term memory the most.
A) Amygdala
B) Spinal Cord
C) Parietal Lobe
D) Hippocampus
- 29. Describe the what the optic chiasm looks like and tell what it does?
- 30. Compare the brain of the chimpanzee and the marmoset. Tell how they similar and different, which one is "smarter", and how you know it.
- 31. Which part of the neuron has the dendrites?
A) C
B) B
C) A
- 32. Describe the differences between short term and long term memory.
- 33. This part of the brain is larger in more advanced animals and contains the frontal, temporal, parietal, and temporal lobes.
A) Cerebrum
B) Brain Stem
C) Cerebellum
D) Spinal Cord
- 34. Why are the olfactory bulbs (smell structures) larger on the sheep brain in comparison to a human brain?
- 35. If you had trouble speaking after a stroke, you may have damage to this area.
A) Broca's
B) Wernicke's
C) Johnson's
D) Gage's
- 36. Describe some things that happen to split brain patients when they are performing the experiment when different things are flashed on different screens.
- 37. If a person had difficulty understanding speech, he or she may have damage to this area.
A) Johnson's
B) Wernicke's
C) Gage's
D) Broca's
- 38. At birth, humans have about this many neurons?
A) 100 billion
B) 100 thousand
C) 100 million
D) 100 trillion
- 39. How many synapses are in a typical human brain?
A) Thousands
B) Millions
C) Trillions
D) Billions
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