History Of Neuropsych

Question 1

Franz Gall

Answer 1

Behavior, insight, and even personality might be linked to brain ANATOMY

Brain responsible for that trait would expand

What push the area of the school that covered that part of the brain outward and therefore cause a bulge

Measuring the skull

Did generate serious research on brain functions

Question 2

Pierre Flourens

Answer 2

Was the first person to study the functions of the major sections of the brain

Extirpation

Behavioral consequences are observed

Removal of one part weakens the whole brain

Question 3

William James

Answer 3

Founder of American psychology

How mind adapts to the environment

Functionalism, which studies how mental processes help individuals adapt to their environments

Question 4

John Dewey

Answer 4

Functionalism inception

Criticized the concept of the reflex arc, which breaks the process of reacting to a stimulus into discrete parts

Believed that psychology should focus on the study of the organism as a whole as it function to adapt to the environment

Question 5

Paul Broca

Answer 5

Physiology

Behavioral deficit of people with brain damage

First person to demonstrate that specific functional impairment could be linked with specific brain lesions

Broca’s area

Question 6

Hermann von Helmholtz

Answer 6

First to measure the speed of a nerve impulse

Measured speed of such an impulse is to reaction time

Often credited with the transition of psychology out of the realm of physiology, and into the realm of quantifiable natural science

Question 7

Sir Charles Sherrington

Answer 7

First inferred the existence of synapses

He thought that synaptic transmission was an electrical process, but we now know that it is primarily a chemical process