PSYC119

Topic: The Brain and Behaviour: An Introduction

Dr. Wendy Suzuki, New York University

You may copy and paste the url below into YouTube to watch the video there, or watch it
through LMS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrM1gMpqRU&list=PLtXCbh6IFA7QCsei-
t8WesusKi8I2LXUJ

NB: Your responses must reflect what was said in the lectures.
Your answers must be brief but written in complete sentences.

Watch the video and answer the questions which follow:

Background questions:

1. Which University hosted the lecture?

2. What is the professor’s area of expertise?
3. She mentioned two areas of research interest; what was the first?
4. What did she say happened in her first freshman class?
5. What are the two types of cells that she said make up the brain?

Brain anatomy and physiology:

6. The frontal lobe:

a. What is it critical for?

7. The occipital lobe:

a. What is used for?
b. What did she say happens when you hit the back of your head?
c. What happens if that part of the head was damaged?

8. Parietal Lobe:
a. What is its purpose?
b. What is the ‘term’ she used that people have when they damage the parietal
lobe?
c. Include one of the examples she used.

9. The temporal lobe?

a. What did she say is its function?
10. Cerebellum:
a. What did she say is its function?
b. Give one of the examples

11. Hippocampus:
a. What did she say is its purpose?
b. Which disease did she say attacks the hippocampus first?
c. How does it affect?

12. Amygdala
a. What is its purpose?

Other Important Understandings

13. Identify three additional important things that you learned about the brain and
behaviour