Chapter 7- Neuropsychology

Question 1

What did neuropsychology start out as

Answer 1

Phrenology- it was not scientific

Question 2

Which psychologist firs questioned specific locations within the brain

Answer 2

Pierre Flourens

Question 3

What experiments did Flouren undertake

Answer 3

Systematic experiments, removing damaged parts of brain for non-humans brain, and observerved change in abilities.

Question 4

What functional associations that Flouren came across hold up today

Answer 4

Flouren removed the cerrebelum , and the co-ordination of movement was destroyed, with intellectual facilities intact

Question 5

What lesion of the brain did Paul broca identify

Answer 5

Brocas area, which is used for the expression of language, which is a function of the left frontal lobe.

Question 6

What lesion of the brain did Carl Wernicke identify.

Answer 6

Wernickes area, which was involved with the comprehension of language, and is a function of the left temporal lobe.

Question 7

What happened to phineas cage, incident and recovery.

Answer 7

He was a railroad worker, in 1848 a tampering iron shot through his cheek, out of the top of his head
Infection set in allowing swelling to expand

Ten weeks later he made a full recovery, but still had the hole in his head, physically he made a miraculous receivers and returned to work within 6 months