EPPP BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR UPDATED
EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Amygdala - ✔✔Responsible for emotional memory, specifically fear based
memories
✔✔Thalamus - ✔✔Relay station of the brain
✔✔Hippocampus - ✔✔Responsible for storing memories from short-term to long-term
and responsible for spatial memory
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔Regulates secretion of hormones
✔✔Basal Ganglia - ✔✔Part of the brain responsible for regulating voluntary movement
✔✔Reticular Formation - ✔✔Part of the brain responsible for maintaining arousal and
consciousness
✔✔Huntington's Disease - ✔✔Movement disorder caused by cell death in the caudate
nucleus; characterized by uncontrolled movements and results in dementia
✔✔Gyrus - ✔✔Hill of the cortex
, ✔✔Sulcus - ✔✔Valley of the cortex
✔✔Ventricle - ✔✔Fluid filled space in the brain
✔✔Meninges - ✔✔Protective material around brain and spinal cord; Three layers
✔✔Dura Mater - ✔✔Toughest outer layer of the meninges
✔✔Arachnoid mater - ✔✔Inner connecting layer of the meninges
✔✔Pia Mater - ✔✔Thinnest last layer of the meninges
✔✔Diencephalon - ✔✔Made up of the thalamic bodies
✔✔Cingulate Cortex - ✔✔Part of the brain responsible for linking behavioral outcomes
to motivation or emotional response to an outcome
✔✔Dorsal - ✔✔Head, spine
✔✔Medial - ✔✔Middle
✔✔Lateral - ✔✔Side
✔✔Ventral - ✔✔Belly
✔✔CT Scan - ✔✔Computerized Tomography - uses x-rays to look at slices of brain;
used in the emergency room after serious head trauma
✔✔MRI - ✔✔Neural imaging that uses magnetic fields to create an image of the brain;
useful for identifying small details in the brain and is used in non-urgent situations
✔✔fMRI - ✔✔Measures functional differences in oxygen levels in the brain without
injecting anything
✔✔PET - ✔✔Positron emission tomography - uses radioactive material to measure
glucose usage to measure brain activity; useful in measuring localized brain function
✔✔Autonomic Nervous System - ✔✔Part of the nervous system that controls
involuntary functions of life such as heart rate, breathing, hormone management, etc.
✔✔Central Nervous System - ✔✔Controlling part of the nervous system; made up of the
brain and spinal cord
EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Amygdala - ✔✔Responsible for emotional memory, specifically fear based
memories
✔✔Thalamus - ✔✔Relay station of the brain
✔✔Hippocampus - ✔✔Responsible for storing memories from short-term to long-term
and responsible for spatial memory
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔Regulates secretion of hormones
✔✔Basal Ganglia - ✔✔Part of the brain responsible for regulating voluntary movement
✔✔Reticular Formation - ✔✔Part of the brain responsible for maintaining arousal and
consciousness
✔✔Huntington's Disease - ✔✔Movement disorder caused by cell death in the caudate
nucleus; characterized by uncontrolled movements and results in dementia
✔✔Gyrus - ✔✔Hill of the cortex
, ✔✔Sulcus - ✔✔Valley of the cortex
✔✔Ventricle - ✔✔Fluid filled space in the brain
✔✔Meninges - ✔✔Protective material around brain and spinal cord; Three layers
✔✔Dura Mater - ✔✔Toughest outer layer of the meninges
✔✔Arachnoid mater - ✔✔Inner connecting layer of the meninges
✔✔Pia Mater - ✔✔Thinnest last layer of the meninges
✔✔Diencephalon - ✔✔Made up of the thalamic bodies
✔✔Cingulate Cortex - ✔✔Part of the brain responsible for linking behavioral outcomes
to motivation or emotional response to an outcome
✔✔Dorsal - ✔✔Head, spine
✔✔Medial - ✔✔Middle
✔✔Lateral - ✔✔Side
✔✔Ventral - ✔✔Belly
✔✔CT Scan - ✔✔Computerized Tomography - uses x-rays to look at slices of brain;
used in the emergency room after serious head trauma
✔✔MRI - ✔✔Neural imaging that uses magnetic fields to create an image of the brain;
useful for identifying small details in the brain and is used in non-urgent situations
✔✔fMRI - ✔✔Measures functional differences in oxygen levels in the brain without
injecting anything
✔✔PET - ✔✔Positron emission tomography - uses radioactive material to measure
glucose usage to measure brain activity; useful in measuring localized brain function
✔✔Autonomic Nervous System - ✔✔Part of the nervous system that controls
involuntary functions of life such as heart rate, breathing, hormone management, etc.
✔✔Central Nervous System - ✔✔Controlling part of the nervous system; made up of the
brain and spinal cord
