Question

Charlotte is taking her college entrance exam today. She has studied hard over the last few weeks with her friends and feels prepared. However, nerves start to settle in as soon as she opens the text booklet.

Relate the following terms to her experience during the exam.


Sympathetic Nervous System

Left Hemisphere

Frontal Lobe

Cortisol

Hypothalamus

Cerebellum

Answer 1

sympathetic nervous sys: she is nervous this will cause her eyes to start dilating, heart rate increase , sweat will be produced from her hands.

left hemp: the understanding, though area will become clouded because she is to distraught to concentrate.

frontal lobe: motor behavior area, helps her open the book and begin answering questions, but also makes her body to begin shaking a little form panic.

cortisol: ? sorry

hypothalamus: regulates body temp., hunger, thirst ect. This will cause he body temp to rise and start to sweat.


cerebellum: helps with balance and movement, will help keep her in the chair and may cause her to tap her foot to think.

Answer 2

All the responses are a consequence of stress response:

• Sympathetic nervous system: it contributes to the "fight or flight" response releasing hormones that cause a faster heartbeat, an increase in respiratory rate, a change in glucose levels, etc.
• Left hemisphere: its cortical activity is responsible for modulating her social behavior while she's having a stress response
• Frontal lobe: it can become affected due to the stress generating problems with cognition
• Cortisol: is known as a stress hormone and it increases sugar
• Hypothalamus: is the organ that sends signals to the pituitary gland and the adrenal medulla to secrete adrenaline and cortisol
• Cerebellum: stress can affect the information processing that occurs here

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