Phineas Gage
The name of the item that shot through Phineas Gage's head causing him brain damage.
What is a tamping iron?
The stage of development that encompasses puberty to the mid-late 20s.
What is adolescence?
The strategy that appeals to the audience's logic and reason.
What is logos?
The species of animal that has a name for themselves, other than humans.
What are bottlenose dolphins?
The length of time in years that it took for Phineas' brain injury to kill him.
What is 11 years?
The item used to test children's self-control in a scientific experiment.
What is a marshmallow?
The strategy that appeals to the audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
The amount of folds there are on a chef's hat.
What is 100?
The year that Phineas received his brain injury.
What is 1848?
The part of the brain that, when damaged, can cause issues with planning and automatic behavior.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The strategy that focuses on the speaker's credibility.
What is ethos?
The animal the British Broadcasting Corporation published a video about on April Fool's Day in 2008.
What are penguins?
The current-day school that houses a mock of Phineas' skull and the item that caused him brain damage.
Where is Harvard University?
The last name of the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain.
What is Blakemore?
What ethos, logos, and pathos are commonly called (as in our learning objectives).
What are rhetorical strategies?
The country AND city that the Eiffel Tower was originally made for.
Where is Barcelona, Spain?
The name of the head of the "museum" that Phineas Gage supposedly joined.
Who was P. T. Barnum?
The three behaviors typically seen among teenagers.
What are risk-taking, peer influence, and consciousness?
The main appeal used here: "The Purple Team wants to destroy your way of life by supporting things you disagree with and being nice to people you don’t like! Are we going to let them? I say, no way! Vote Orange Team: The team that hates Purple!"
What is pathos?
The main theme of Ms. Lawrence's recent Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
What are pirates?