QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Cerebellum is also know as. Answer: the little brain
◉ What is the cerebellum responsible for. Answer: fine and complex
motor skills, maintaining muscles, language processing
◉ Executive function. Answer: ability to manage several cognitive
tasks to reach a particular goal
◉ Working memory. Answer: critical for storage and manipulation of
information
◉ Working memory is connected to STM or LTM?. Answer: STM
◉ Cerebrum. Answer: covered with white fibrous tract, made mostly
of nerve cell bodies
◉ Association fibers. Answer: run between different areas of the
hemisphere
, ◉ Projection fibers. Answer: connect cortex to brainstem and below
◉ Transverse fibers. Answer: communicate across the hemispheres
◉ Corpus collosum. Answer: connects the two hemispheres; the
largest transverse tract
◉ hills of brain are also known as. Answer: gyri
◉ 4 lobes of the brain. Answer: Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
◉ What does the central sulcus separate?. Answer: frontal and
parietal lobes
◉ Prefrontal cortex. Answer: most forward part of the frontal lobe,
responsible for executive function, control, organization, and
synthesis of sensory and motor information
◉ The higher/more complex the brain function the ________. Answer:
more space it takes up in the brain