Chapter 1

Question 1

Believed you could measure physchological attributes by feeling or measuring the skul

Answer 1

Franz Gall

Question 2

Doctrine of Phrenology

Answer 2

Franz Gall

Question 3

first to study functions of the major sections of the brain

Answer 3

Pierre Flourens

Question 4

what is extirpation aka ablation

Answer 4

when various parts of the brain are removed and behavioral consequences are observed. Pierre Flourens

Question 5

believed that the brain had specific parts for specific functions

Answer 5

Pierre Flourens

Question 6

Father of American Psychology

Answer 6

William James

Question 7

Believed in Functionalism- how the mental processes help individuals adapt to their environments

Answer 7

William James and John Dewey

Question 8

His article is seen as the inception of Functionalism

Answer 8

John Dewey

Question 9

Studied behavioral defecits of people with brian damage

Answer 9

Paul Broca

Question 10

A brain lesion on th eleft side of the brain is referred to as

Answer 10

Broca’s Area

Question 11

first to measure the speed of a nerve impulse

Answer 11

Hermannn Von Helmholtz

Question 12

first to infer the existences of synapses, thought they were electrical

Answer 12

Sir Charles Sherrington

Question 13

three types of nerve ells

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1. sensory- afferent
2. motor neurons- efferent
3. Interneurons

Question 14

transmits sensory information from receptors to the spinal chord and brain

Answer 14

sensory/afferent neurons

Question 15

transmits motor information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands

Answer 15

motor/efferent neurons

Question 16

found between other neurons and are the most numerous of the 3 neurons located primarily in the brain and spinal chord and often linked to reflexive behavior

Answer 16

interneurons

Question 17

interneurons send info to muschles before it gets to brain, to at as a reflex to things like pain. This is an example of

Answer 17

relex arc