BIOPSYCHOLOGY ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ Motor area. Answer: Back of frontal lobe, involved in regulating
movement.
◉ Somatosensory area. Answer: Front of both parietal lobes,
processes sensory information such as touch.
◉ Parts of the brain: Visual area.. Answer: Occipital lobe, receives
and processes visual information.
◉ Parts of the brain: Auditory area.. Answer: Temporal lobe,
analyses speech-based information.
◉ Parts of the brain: Language areas.. Answer: Broca's area, frontal
lobe in the left hemisphere = speech production.
Wernicke's area, temporal lobe in the left hemisphere = language
comprehension.
, ◉ Define plasticity.. Answer: Brain's tendency to change and adapt
(functionally and physically) as a result of experience and new
learning.
◉ What five things must be used to evaluate localisation of
function?. Answer: Brain scan evidence, neurological evidence, case
study evidence, Lashley's research and plasticity and the
equipotentiality theory.
◉ Synaptic pruning.. Answer: As we age, rarely used connections are
deleted and frequently used connections are strengthened.
◉ Axonal sprouting.. Answer: Undamaged axons grow new nerve
endings to reconnect neurons whose links were injured or severed.
◉ Recruitment of homologous areas.. Answer: Regions on opposite
sides of the brain take on functions of damaged areas.
◉ Functional recovery.. Answer: Form of plasticity. Following
damage through trauma, the brain's ability to redistribute/transfer
functions performed by damaged areas to other, undamaged areas.
◉ Neural plasticity.. Answer: Describes the brain's tendency to
change and adapt - functionally and physically - resulting from
experience and new learning.
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ Motor area. Answer: Back of frontal lobe, involved in regulating
movement.
◉ Somatosensory area. Answer: Front of both parietal lobes,
processes sensory information such as touch.
◉ Parts of the brain: Visual area.. Answer: Occipital lobe, receives
and processes visual information.
◉ Parts of the brain: Auditory area.. Answer: Temporal lobe,
analyses speech-based information.
◉ Parts of the brain: Language areas.. Answer: Broca's area, frontal
lobe in the left hemisphere = speech production.
Wernicke's area, temporal lobe in the left hemisphere = language
comprehension.
, ◉ Define plasticity.. Answer: Brain's tendency to change and adapt
(functionally and physically) as a result of experience and new
learning.
◉ What five things must be used to evaluate localisation of
function?. Answer: Brain scan evidence, neurological evidence, case
study evidence, Lashley's research and plasticity and the
equipotentiality theory.
◉ Synaptic pruning.. Answer: As we age, rarely used connections are
deleted and frequently used connections are strengthened.
◉ Axonal sprouting.. Answer: Undamaged axons grow new nerve
endings to reconnect neurons whose links were injured or severed.
◉ Recruitment of homologous areas.. Answer: Regions on opposite
sides of the brain take on functions of damaged areas.
◉ Functional recovery.. Answer: Form of plasticity. Following
damage through trauma, the brain's ability to redistribute/transfer
functions performed by damaged areas to other, undamaged areas.
◉ Neural plasticity.. Answer: Describes the brain's tendency to
change and adapt - functionally and physically - resulting from
experience and new learning.
