PSYC 301 WVU Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers

PSYC 301 WVU Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers

Daulism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the concept that the mind and body are
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seperate and distinct | |




Monism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Body and mind are one.
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brain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-main control center of the nervous system
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spinal cord - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-collection of cells connecting brain to the rest
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of the body
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longitudinal fissure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-separates the two hemispheres
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Gyri - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ridges of the brain
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Sulci - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-space between ridges of the gyri
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cortex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-made up of cell bodies of neurons; grey matter
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white matter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-myelinated axons
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, frontal lobe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-planning organization, learning, decision
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making,(prefrontal cortex and primary motor cortex) | | | | |




parietal lobe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-receives input from body
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senses(somatosensory cortex) |




temporal lobe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-language, hearing, memory(auditory
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cortex)


occipital lobe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-processes visual information
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Wernicke's aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--inability to comprehend speech
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-caused by damage to temporal lobe
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Broca's aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--inability to produce speech
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-caused by damage to temporal lobe
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Blindsight - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--a condition in which a person can respond to
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a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it
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- damage to occipital lobe
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Hemispital neglect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--a deficit in attention to and
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awareness of one side of the field of vision is observed
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- damage to parietal lobe
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