The Accident
The year of Phineas's accident
What is 1848?
Who is Dr. Harlow?
The main functions of this part of the brain
What are personality and decision-making?
Phineas's job in Chile
What is a stagecoach driver?
The reason Phineas' case is important to doctors/psychologist today
What is because it shows us how different parts of the brain function?
Phineas' job before the accident
What is a foreman of a track construction gang?
The part of Phineas's brain that was injured
What is the frontal cortex or left frontal lobe?
Who was Phineas the happiest with?
What is children and animals?
The age of Phineas at the time of the accident
What is 26 years old?
Two complications that Phineas had after the accident
The Whole Brainers belief about the brain
The two most reliable sources regarding Phineas
Who is Dr. Harlow and Hannah Gage (his mother)?
The personality of Phineas before the accident
What is "good with his hands and good with his men?"
The person to which Dr. Harlow compared Phineas's thinking and behavior
What is a child?
The Localizers/Phrenologists belief about the brain
The reason Phineas changed farming jobs frequently
What is because he would fight with the farmers/owners?
The name given to Dr. Gall's brain science
The cause of Phineas's accident
What is an explosion caused by the iron striking the granite?
Two reasons why Phineas should have died
What is: size of rod, shock, loss of blood, brain swelling?
One reason whole-brainers believed Phineas proved they were right
Bonus: One reason localizers believed Phineas proved they were right
What is because he could still function, so the rest of the brain must have taken over for the injured part?
Bonus: What is because he was no longer kind and they believed the organ of "benevolence" was injured.
The name and location of the museum where Phineas showed off his injury
What is P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York City?
The offer Phineas refused from Dr. Harlow
What is $1,000 for a pocketful of pebbles