Download Brain Regions and Functions and more Exams Social 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) 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 Damage: impaired self movement, impaired learning in motor response to visual cue Primary Motor Cortex - Correct answer Function: coordination and initiation of motor movement Damage: speech impairment, distortion of body image, and more-learning defects Limbic System - Correct answer Function: memory formation and storage, regulating emotion, processing smells, sexual arousal Damage: loss of sense of smell, agitation, uncontrolled emotions, abnormal sexual behavior, loss of memory Amygdala - Correct answer Function: fear, emotion processing, learning reward processing Damage: aggression, loss of control on emotion, disruption of short term memory Cingulate (Gyrus) Cortex - Correct answer Function: pain processing, emotion, memory, self regulation Damage: lack of fear, inappropriate emotions, learning impairments Dentate Gyrus - Correct answer Function: memory formation, and memory recall Damage: memory impairments Entorhinal Cortex - Correct answer Function: declarative memory and self localization Damage: amnesia, impaired declarative memory and spacial learning Hippocampus - Correct answer Function: early memory storage, long term memory, spatial naviagation
