Brain & Mind quiz

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Question 1 of 75

What is the name of the blue lobe?

Select one of the following:

Parietal
Frontal
Temporal
Occipital

Explanation

Question 2 of 75

What is the name of the yellow lobe?

Select one of the following:

Occipital
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal

Explanation

Question 3 of 75

What is the name of the pink lobe?

Select one of the following:

Frontal
Occipital
Temporal
Parietal

Explanation

Question 4 of 75

What is the name of the purple part of the brain?

Select one of the following:

Occipital lobe
Temporal lobe
Cerrebellum
Brain stem

Explanation

Question 5 of 75

What is the name of the orange lobe?

Select one of the following:

Occipital
Temporal
Parietal
Frontal

Explanation

Question 6 of 75

What is the name of the division between the frontal and parietal lobe?

Select one of the following:

Central sulcus
Inter-hemispheric fissure
Posterior sulci
Lateral fissure

Explanation

Question 7 of 75

What divides the Temporal lobe from the Frontal and Parietal lobe?

Select one of the following:

Lateral fissure
Posterior sulci
Inter-hemispheric fissure
Post-central gyrus

Explanation

Question 8 of 75

What divides the right from the left hemisphere?

Select one of the following:

Central Sulcus
Parietal Lobe
Corpus Colossum
Inter-Hemispheric Fissure

Explanation

Question 9 of 75

What connects the Cerebellum to the rest of the brain?

Select one of the following:

Midbrain
Pons
Brain Stem
4th Ventricle

Explanation

Question 10 of 75

What divides the Occipital lobe from the Parietal lobe?

Select one of the following:

Posterior Sulci
Lateral Fissure
Brocha's area
Inter-Hemispheric Fissure

Explanation

Question 11 of 75

What is the name of the gyrus directly in front of the Central Sulcus?

Select one of the following:

Post-central gyrus
Pre-central gyrus
Warnicke's area
Primary Auditory Cortex

Explanation

Question 12 of 75

What is the name of the gyrus directly behind the Central Sulcus?

Select one of the following:

Pre-central gyrus
Lateral fissure
Post-central gyrus
It doesn't have a name

Explanation

Question 13 of 75

What connects the left and right hemispheres?

Select one of the following:

Ventricle
Basal Ganglia
Corpus Collosum
Cerebellum

Explanation

Question 14 of 75

What is the supposed function of the frontal lobe?

Select one of the following:

Deals with somatosensory information. It is also believed to contain a map of the body with the largest parts containing the most neurons e.g. hands, mouth
Deals with auditory information, and contains Warnicke’s area.
Deals with visual processing, offering deeper processing due to the distance.
Speech Programming But also “Planning” “Executive Functions” and “motor functions”. Also contains Brocha’s area.

Explanation

Question 15 of 75

What is the supposed function of the Occipital Lobe?

Select one of the following:

Speech Programming But also “Planning” “Executive Functions” and “motor functions”. Also contains Brocha’s area.
Deals with visual processing, offering deeper processing due to the distance.
Deals with auditory information, and contains Warnicke’s area.
Deals with somatosensory information. It is also believed to contain a map of the body with the largest parts containing the most neurons e.g. hands, mouth

Explanation

Question 16 of 75

What is the supposed funtion of the Temporal Lobe?

Select one of the following:

Deals with somatosensory information. It is also believed to contain a map of the body with the largest parts containing the most neurons e.g. hands, mouth
Deals with auditory information, and contains Warnicke’s area.
Deals with visual processing, offering deeper processing due to the distance.
Speech Programming But also “Planning” “Executive Functions” and “motor functions”. Also contains Brocha’s area.

Explanation

Question 17 of 75

What is the purpose of the Parietal Lobe?

Select one of the following:

Speech Programming But also “Planning” “Executive Functions” and “motor functions”. Also contains Brocha’s area.
Deals with visual processing, offering deeper processing due to the distance.
Deals with auditory information, and contains Warnicke’s area.
Deals with somatosensory information. It is also believed to contain a map of the body with the largest parts containing the most neurons e.g. hands, mouth

Explanation

Question 18 of 75

What is the function of the Ventricles?

Select one of the following:

Helps transfer information between the two hemispheres
Contains spinal fluid which maintains pressure for the brain in order to prevent damage
Deals with motor control
They don't have a purpose

Explanation

Question 19 of 75

What is the function of the Basal Ganglia?

Select one of the following:

High level motor regulation
Links the Thalmus with the motor cortex
Reward and reinforcement
All of the options, but mainly high level motor regulation

Explanation

Question 20 of 75

What is the name of the large pink section?

Select one of the following:

Cingulate Gyrus
Fornix
Mammillary body
Amygdala

Explanation

Question 21 of 75

What is the name of the blue section?

Select one of the following:

Amygdala (Associated with emotion and is one of the oldest parts of our brains)
Hippocampus (Associated with Long Term Memory)
Offactory Bulb (Associated with smell)
Mammillary Bodies (Also associated with memory)

Explanation

Question 22 of 75

What is the function of the Thalami?

Select one of the following:

Containing 20 sub nucli, it was originally believed to be the core of processing but is now known as being a gateway between cortex and brainstem.
Deals with chemicals as opposed to electronic impulses and is connected to the pituitary gland.
High level motor regulation
Is the labyrinth of the ear perceives all movement .

Explanation

Question 23 of 75

What is the function of the Hypothalamus?

Select one of the following:

Connected to the Pituitary gland, it deals with chemicals as opposed to electronic impulses.
Once believed to be the core of processing, it is now known as being a gateway between the cortex and the brain stem.
Deals with autonomic motor control, joined with the cortex via the Pons
High level motor regulation e.g. eyes, balance, movements

Explanation

Question 24 of 75

What is the purpose of the Midbrain?

Select one of the following:

Functioning with the Superior and Inferior Colliculi, it perceives all movement, regulating steadiness of the eye and helps control posture.
Connected to the pituitary gland it uses chemicals as opposed to electronic impulses, impacting the entire body.
Deals with automated movement sequences and automatic aspects of language, it is unconscious meaning that our lives are lot easier
The system at the core of the brain. It is incredibly powerful and impossible to control. It contains our basic animal instincts.

Explanation

Question 25 of 75

Built up of 50 billion neurons (more than the entire cortex combined) it controls the majority of autonomic functions including driving, walking and talking. It is connected to the rest of the brain via the Pons. What is described?

Select one of the following:

Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Pituitary gland
Cerebellum

Explanation

Question 26 of 75

What is the purpose of Mitochondria within neurons?

Select one of the following:

Provide structure and clean up cells
Produces energy within the neuron
Insulate neurons preventing cross fires
Incredibly efficient cleaners, digesting dead cells and foreign organisms.

Explanation

Question 27 of 75

What is the purpose of Astrocytes in relation to neurons?

Select one of the following:

Provide structure and clean up cells
Produces energy within the neuron
Insulate neurons preventing cross fires
Incredibly efficient cleaners, digesting dead cells and foreign organisms.

Explanation

Question 28 of 75

What is the funtion of Oligodendrocytes in relation to neurons?

Select one of the following:

Incredibly efficient cleaners, digesting dead cells and foreign organisms.
Insulate neurons preventing cross fires
Produces energy within the neuron
Provide structure and clean up cells

Explanation

Question 29 of 75

What is the purpose of Microglia in relation to neurons?

Select one of the following:

Provide structure and clean up cells
Produces energy within the neuron
Insulate neurons preventing cross fires
Incredibly efficient cleaners, digesting dead cells and foreign organisms.

Explanation

Question 30 of 75

What is the name of one?

Select one of the following:

Dentriatic tree
Axon
Soma
Nucleas

Explanation

Question 31 of 75

What is the name of Two?

Select one of the following:

Nucleas
Axon
Synapse
Myelin Sheath

Explanation

Question 32 of 75

What is the name of Three?

Select one of the following:

Soma
Nucleas
Axon
Denodrite

Explanation

Question 33 of 75

What is the name of Four?

Select one of the following:

Soma
Myelin Sheath
Node of Ranvier
Axon

Explanation

Question 34 of 75

What is the name of Six?

Select one of the following:

Axon
Node of Ranvier
Synapse
Denodrite

Explanation

Question 35 of 75

What is the name of Seven?

Select one of the following:

Node of Ranvier
Axon
Myelin Sheath
Soma

Explanation

Question 36 of 75

What is one?

Select one of the following:

Third ventricle
Fourth Ventricle
Cerebral Aquaduct
Lateral Ventricles

Explanation

Question 37 of 75

What is two?

Select one of the following:

Fourth Ventricle
Third Ventricle
Lateral ventricles
Cerebral aquaduct

Explanation

Question 38 of 75

What is three?

Select one of the following:

Fourth ventricle
Cerebral Acquaduct
Third Ventricle
Lateral Ventricles

Explanation

Question 39 of 75

What is four?

Select one of the following:

Cerebral Aquaduct
Third Ventricle
Fourth Ventricle
Lateral ventricles

Explanation

Question 40 of 75

What is A?

Select one of the following:

Post-synaptic membrane
Pre-synaptic membrane
Synaptic cleft
Neurotransmitter

Explanation

Question 41 of 75

What is B?

Select one of the following:

Synaptic cleft
Pre-synaptic membrane
Post-synaptic membrane
Neurotransmitter

Explanation

Question 42 of 75

What is C?

Select one of the following:

Synaptic cleft
Post-synaptic membrane
Pre-synaptic membrane
Receptor site

Explanation

Question 43 of 75

What is four?

Select one of the following:

Synaptic cleft
Pre-synaptic membrane
Neurotransmitter
Synaptic Vescle

Explanation

Question 44 of 75

Which is not proposed as a key component of the mind?

Select one of the following:

Conscience experiences (Feeling, sentience)
Agency (Volition, Free will)
Intelligent thought (problem-solving, goal directed)
Pineal gland

Explanation

Question 45 of 75

What is the main principle of dualism?

Select one of the following:

We only have a mind
We only have a brain
We have a mind and a brain. Descartes proposed that the Pineal gland is likely to be the link
I have a mind but others do not

Explanation

Question 46 of 75

What do idealist monists believe?

Select one of the following:

We only have the mind, all of reality is fiction
The only things that exist are physical, it's basic physics. We therefore only have a brain
We have both a mind and brain
We have organs of both internal and external percption

Explanation

Question 47 of 75

What do materialist monists believe?

Select one of the following:

We only have a mind
We have organs of internal and external perception
The only existing things are physical we therefore only have a brain
We have both a mind and a brain

Explanation

Question 48 of 75

What do duel aspect monists believe?

Select one of the following:

We only have a brain
We only have a mind
We have organs of both external and internal perception
Easy problem- Which brain regions moderate consciousness
Hard problem- How do these produce consciousness

Explanation

Question 49 of 75

Antonio Domasio proposed the core and extended consciousness but what do they mean?

Select one of the following:

Core - Sense of awareness, alertness of working states
Extended - memory, reasoning
Core - memory, reasoning
Extended - sense of awareness, alertness of working states
Core - thinking
Extended - senses

Explanation

Question 50 of 75

What has been hypothesised as the most likely part of the brain to control consciousness?

Select one of the following:

Cerebellum
Basal Ganglia
Brain Stem
Thalmus

Explanation

Question 51 of 75

What is one?

Select one of the following:

Cornea
Pupil
Lens
Iris

Explanation

Question 52 of 75

What is three?

Select one of the following:

Iris
Pupil
Lens
Cornea

Explanation

Question 53 of 75

What is four?

Select one of the following:

Retina
Pupil
Iris
Lens

Explanation

Question 54 of 75

What is seven?

Select one of the following:

Lens
Cornea
Optic nerve
Pupil

Explanation

Question 55 of 75

The more we get away from the _________ the _ information is integrated.

Select one of the following:

Optic nerve, less
Striate cortex, more
Retina, less
Optic chiasm, more

Explanation

Question 56 of 75

The right eye is connected to....

Select one of the following:

The left hemisphere only
The right hemisphere only
Both the hemispheres
Neither

Explanation

Question 57 of 75

What is NOT a component of the basal ganglia?

Select one of the following:

Caudate Nucleas
Putamen
Nucleas Accumbens
Cingulate cortex

Explanation

Question 58 of 75

Which is correct in relation to temporal lobes?

Select one of the following:

Primary auditory cortex - - Warnicke's area - - Auditory association cortex
Motor association cortex - - Brocha's area - - prefrontal cortex
Primary visual cortex - - Visual association cortex
Somatsosensory cortex - - Assosciation cortex

Explanation

Question 59 of 75

What is correct in relation to the frontal lobe?

Select one of the following:

Primary auditory cortex - - Warnicke's area - - Auditory association cortex
Motor association cortex - - Brocha's area - - prefrontal cortex
Primary visual cortex - - Visual association cortex
Somatsosensory cortex - - Assosciation cortex

Explanation

Question 60 of 75

What is C?

Select one of the following:

Ear Canal
Ear Drum
Auditory nerve
Cochlea

Explanation

Question 61 of 75

What is D?

Select one of the following:

Cochlea
Auditory nerve
Ear Canal
Ear Drum

Explanation

Question 62 of 75

What is F?

Select one of the following:

Ear Canal
Ear Drum
Auditory nerve
Cochlea

Explanation

Question 63 of 75

The project to the thalmus before they project further towards the _.

Select one of the following:

Auditory Nerve, Primary auditory cortex
Ear Canal, Ear Drum
Cochlea, Auditory Nerve
Malleus, Incus

Explanation

Question 64 of 75

The primary auditory cortex lies within the _ near the Planum Temporale and receives sound frequency input from the .

Select one of the following:

Inter-hemispheric fissure, ear drum
Lateral fissure, Cochlea
Posterior sulus, Malleaus
Pre-centeral gyrus, superior temporal cortex

Explanation

Question 65 of 75

Broca's aphasia is

Select one of the following:

The individual can fully understand others but cannot articulate words, this is often due to a lesion in the inferior prefrontal cortex
The individual cannot understand spoken language very well and they often produce meaningless language, this is often due to lesion in the posterior superior temporal cortex
Can produce words but can't comprehend what they're saying
Can understand and produce words fairly well but is unable to repeat non-words

Explanation

Question 66 of 75

Warnicke's aphasia is

Select one of the following:

The individual can fully understand others but cannot articulate words, this is often due to a lesion in the inferior prefrontal cortex
The individual cannot understand spoken language very well and they often produce meaningless language, this is often due to lesion in the posterior superior temporal cortex
Can produce words but can't comprehend what they're saying
Can understand and produce words fairly well but is unable to repeat non-words

Explanation

Question 67 of 75

What is the arcuate fasiculus believed to do

Select one of the following:

Connect Broca's area to Warnicke's area
Connect the Auditory cortex to the superior Auditory cortex
Connect the frontal lobe to the parietal lobe
Connect the left hemisphere to the right

Explanation

Question 68 of 75

What corticol systems are involved in language production

Select one of the following:

Motor cortex, premotor cortex and Brocha's area
Primary auditory cortex, Warnicke's area and Auditory asociation cortex
Post-central gyrus and somatosensory cortex
Primary visual cortex, occipital lobe and visual association cortex

Explanation

Question 69 of 75

Individuals with lesions to the ___________ do not show the augmented startle response. They are unable to recall emotional aspects of stories (Cahill et al. 1995), and less activity in this part of the brain with emotionally arousing words (Isenberg et al. 1999).

Select one of the following:

Amygdala
Fornix
Hippocampus
Frontal lobe

Explanation

Question 70 of 75

The hemisphere is more involved than the __ in expressing emotions. This hemispheric dominance is the same in other mammals.

Select one of the following:

Right, Left
Left, Right

Explanation

Question 71 of 75

In the 1950s Egas Moniz identified that the _________ isn't important in cognition, he therefore developed a procedure which isolated this lobe. This helped patients with frustration or emotional anguish.

Select one of the following:

Frontal
Occipital
Parietal
Temporal

Explanation

Question 72 of 75

______________ are processed in fundamental behaviour networks in which we share with other mammals including the Amygdala and the Hypothalamus

Select one of the following:

Emotions
Feelings
Sounds
Images

Explanation

Question 73 of 75

____________ are processed in higher functional structures including the orbitofrontal cortex, cingulate cortex etc dominantly but not exclusively to the right hemisphere.

Select one of the following:

Emotions
Feelings
Sounds
Images

Explanation

Question 74 of 75

Which hemisphere has been believed to deal with: language, calculation, reason, speech and analysis?

Select one of the following:

Left
Right

Explanation

Question 75 of 75

Which hemisphere has been associated with: visuospatial integration, emotion, "heart", synthesis and balance?

Select one of the following:

Left
Right

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Brain & Mind quiz

Question 1 of 75

What is the name of the blue lobe?

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Question 2 of 75

What is the name of the yellow lobe?

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Question 3 of 75

What is the name of the pink lobe?

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Question 4 of 75

What is the name of the purple part of the brain?

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Question 5 of 75

What is the name of the orange lobe?

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Question 6 of 75

What is the name of the division between the frontal and parietal lobe?

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Question 7 of 75

What divides the Temporal lobe from the Frontal and Parietal lobe?

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Question 8 of 75

What divides the right from the left hemisphere?

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Question 9 of 75

What connects the Cerebellum to the rest of the brain?

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Question 10 of 75

What divides the Occipital lobe from the Parietal lobe?

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Question 11 of 75

What is the name of the gyrus directly in front of the Central Sulcus?

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Question 12 of 75

What is the name of the gyrus directly behind the Central Sulcus?

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Question 13 of 75

What connects the left and right hemispheres?

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Question 14 of 75

What is the supposed function of the frontal lobe?

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Question 15 of 75

What is the supposed function of the Occipital Lobe?

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Question 16 of 75

What is the supposed funtion of the Temporal Lobe?

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Question 17 of 75

What is the purpose of the Parietal Lobe?

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Question 18 of 75

What is the function of the Ventricles?

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Question 19 of 75

What is the function of the Basal Ganglia?

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Question 20 of 75

What is the name of the large pink section?