1.1 A Brief History of Neuropsychology Flashcards
Who developed the doctrine of phrenology? What is phrenology?
Franz Gall. Phrenology was the idea that psychological attributes could be measured by feeling or measuring the skull.
He was the first person to study the functions of major sections of the brain by extirpation, which is the surgical removal of specific parts of the brain.
Pierre Flourens
Who was the father of American psychology and a major contributor to the theories of functionalism?
William James
He authored an 1896 article that was viewed as the inception of functionalism.
John Dewey
He examined the behavioral deficits of people with brain damage and was the first person to demonstrate that particular functional impairments could be linked with specific brain lesions. Hint: an area of the brain is named after him.
Paul Broca
He was the first to measure the speed of a nerve impulse.
Hermann von Helmholtz
He was the first to infer the existence of synapses.
Charles Sherrington
