Download Brain Regions and Functions and more Exams Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Morgan's AP Psychology-Brain Regions Latest Exam 2023-answers Basal Ganglia - Correct answer Function: Movement regulation, skill learning, habit forming, reward systems Damage: Tremors, abnormal posture, involuntary muscle movement, increase in muscle tone Brain Stem - Correct answer Function: Alertness, sleep, balance, startle response Damage: Organ Failure, sleep disorder (insomnia, sleep apnea, difficulties balancing and moving The Pons - Correct answer Functions: Regulating breathing, taste and autonomic function Damages: Impaired breathing, deafness, sleep disturbances, loss of taste (gustation) Cerebellum - Correct answer Functions: Coordination of movement, motor- learning, balance, posture, reflex memory, timing, sequence learning Damage: Loss of coordination, tremor, not being able to walk,, slured speech Corpus Callosum - Correct answer Functions: connects right and left hemisphere and allows info to share between them Damage: coma, mutism, memory impairments, split brain syndrome (lots of difficulties) Page 1 of 6 Frontal Lobe - Correct answer Functions: decision making, problem solving, intelligence, language, comprehension Damage: paralized, mood changes, inability to express language Broca's Area - Correct answer Function: language production (speech and sign) comprehension of complex things Damage: halting speech, repetitive speech, discvclert structure of individual words Prefrontal Cortex - Correct answer Function: decision making, planning, problem solving, attention, social skills Damage: impairments of voluntary behavior, memory disfunction, inappropriate social behavior Reticular Formation - Correct answer Function: Sleep and consciousness Damage: The individual may be unarousable Medula - Correct answer Function: breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure Damage: loss of muscle coordination, loss of touch, not able to detect pain or temperature changes Premotor Cortex - Correct answer Function: planning and executing motor movements, imitation and empathy Page 2 of 6 Damage: difficulty with touch, failure to recognize ones own body, phantom limb pain Temporal lobes - Correct answer Function: recognition, perception, understanding language Damage: difficulty understanding speech, faces, bojects, persistant talking (+ or -) in sexual behavior Middle & Inferior Temporal Guri - Correct answer Function: word retrieval, visual perception, visual recognition Damage: difficulty in categorizing faces and objects, complex visual perception Perirhinal Cortex - Correct answer Function: object recognition Damage: difficulties naming/identifying objects Superior Temporal Gyrus - Correct answer Function: sound processing, auditory memory Damage: problems comprehending speech, recognizing sound patterns Thalamus - Correct answer Function: memory,alertness, consciousness, motor & sensory information Damage: pain, coma, amnesia, sleepiness Ventricles - Correct answer Function: cushions and protects the brain Page 5 of 6 Damage: enlargement can lead to dementia Page 6 of 6
