History of Neuropsychology (1.1)

Question 1

Franz Gall

Answer 1

• developed the doctrine of phrenology
• believed that one could thus measure psychological
  attributes by feeling or measuring the skull

Question 2

Pierre Flourens

Answer 2

• first person to study the functions of
  the major sections of the brain via ablation.
• surgically removed and the behavioral consequences are observed.

Question 3

William James

Answer 3

• founder of American
  psychology
• functionalism, which studies how mental processes help individuals adapt
  to their environments

Question 4

John Dewey

Answer 4

• believed that psychology should focus on the
  study of the organism as a whole as it functioned to adapt to the
  environment.

Question 5

Hermann von Helmholtz

Answer 5

• measure the speed of
  a nerve impulse
• providing an important early link between behavior and underlying nervous system activity.
• transition of psychology out of the realm of philosophy
  and into the realm of quantifiable natural science

Question 6

Sir Charles Sherrington

Answer 6

• inferred the existence of synapses
• thought that synaptic transmission was an
  electrical process
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