1.1 Brief History of Neuropsychology

Question 1

Franz Gall

Answer 1

• developed the doctrine of phrenology
• if a specific trait was well-developed, then the part of the brain responsible for that trait would expand and push the area of the skull creating a bulge
• believed that one could 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
• extirpation (abrasion) on rabbits and pigeons
• surgically removed different parts of the brain and observed the behavorial consequences
• brain has specific parts for specific functions and that the removal of one part can weaken the whole brain

Question 3

William James

Answer 3

• father of American psychology
• studied how the mind functioned in adapting to the environment
• functionalism

Question 4

John Dewey

Answer 4

• inception

- psychology should focus on the study of the organism as a whole as it functioned to adapt to the environment

Question 5

Paul Broca

Answer 5

• examined the behavorial deficits of people with brain damage
• specific impairments could be lined with specific brain lesions
• Broca’s area

Question 6

Hermann von Helmholtz

Answer 6

-measured the speed of a nerve impulse

Question 7

Sir Charles Sherrington

Answer 7

• inferred the existance of synapses

- thought that synaptic transmissions was an electrical process, but it is a chemical process