MCAT Psychology High Yield Content -questions and answers

MCAT Psychology High Yield Content -questions
and answers
Cerebral cortex - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain, known as the cerebrum;
outer covering of the cerebral hemispheres; contains 4 lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, and
temporal



Frontal Lobe - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; executive function, impulse
control, long-term planning (prefrontal cortex), motor function (primary motor cortex), and
speech production



Broca's area - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; important for speech
production, found in the frontal lobe



Parietal Lobe - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; sensation of touch, pressure,
temperature and pain (somatosensory cortex); spatial processing, orientation, and
manipulation



somatosensory cortex - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; found in the parietal
lobe, important for touch, pressure, temperature, and pain sensation



Occipital lobe - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; visual processing



temporal lobe - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; sound processing (auditory
complex), speech perception (Wernicke's area), memory, and emotion (limbic system)



Wernicke's area - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; found in the temporal lobe;
important for speech perception

,Basal ganglia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; coordinates muscle movement
from cortex to the rest of the brain and spinal cord; smooth movements and maintain
posture stability



limbic system - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; primarily associated with
emotion and memory; includes the septal nuclei, amygdala, hippocampus



Septal nuclei - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; part of the limbic system;
feelings of pleasure, pleasure-seeking behavior, and addiction



Amygdala - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; part of the limbic system,
controls fear and aggression



Hippocampus - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; part of the limbic system;
consolidates memories and communicates with other parts of the limbic system through the
fornix



Thalamus - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; sensory relay station for all
incoming senses EXCEPT smell; sorts, and transmits to proper areas of the cortex



Hypothalamus - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Forebrain; active during high-arousal,
aggressive behavior, and sexual behavior; controls endocrine functions and ANS; maintains
homeostasis



hypophyseal portal system - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔connects hypothalamus to
anterior pituitary; maintains coordination of the endocrine system



Hindbrain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔"brain stem"; contains the cerebellum,
medulla oblongata, and reticular formation

, Cerebellum - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔part of the hindbrain; controls motor
movement, and balance



medulla oblongata - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔part of the hindbrain; controls
breathing, reflex control, and maintains upright posture



reticular formation - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔part of the hindbrain; controls
normal behavior of walking, sleeping, waking, and other reflexes; degenerative part of this
section is related to Parkinson's Disease



Midbrain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔contains the inferior and superior colliculli



inferior colliculli - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔important midbrain nucleus that is
involved in the auditory pathway



superior colliculli - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔important midbrain nucleus that is
involved in the visual pathway, receiving information from the eye



Function of midbrain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔reception of sensory and motor
information; generally necessary for survival



Forebrain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, basal
ganglia, limbic system, and cerebral cortex



Function of hindbrain - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔controls balance, motor
coordination, breathing, and general arousal (waking and sleeping); generally necessary for
survival



Corpus Callosum - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔bundle of axons that connects the
right and left hemispheres