Weber and Fechner
Helmholtz, Hering & Ladd-Franklin
Early Research on Brain Functioning
Early Physiology
Potpourri! : )
100
What does jnd stand for?
Just Noticeable Difference
100
What common area did Helmholtz, Hering, and Ladd-Franklin all study?
Color vision
100
Phrenology is the study of mental faculties and human qualities within the brain. What depicted whether or not a person held a specific quality?
A bump or protrusion in the skull or on the head.
100
What was the law about the brain that Bell and Magendie called?
What is Bell-Magendie Law
100
who had the completely rational logic; Angels do not have legs because the closer to heave you are the less legs oh have. Angels are spheres. Planets are also spheres. Angels must be planets.
Dr. Mises (Fechner)
200
What is the name of Gustav Fechner's Alter Ego?
Dr. Mises
200
Who was denied their degree from John Hopkins?
Christine Ladd-Franklin
200
Who accepted and brought popularity to the term 'Phrenology'?
Johann Kaspar Spurzheim - Gall's student and colleague.
200
What did the Bell-Magendie Law state?
What is sensory nerves entered through the posterior root and motor neurons enter from the anterior root.
200
Who was a materialist?
Hermann Von Helmholtz
300
Fechner's Methods to Explore the Mind Body Relationship? (3)
1. Method of Limits 2. Method of Constant Stimuli 3. Method of Adjustment
300
What was the Young–Helmholtz Theory of Color Vision also known as?
The Trichromatic Theory
300
What is the term used to describe phrenology's effect on education and exercising the 'mental muscle'?
Formal Discipline
300
What was Muller's theory on neurons called?
What is Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies
300
Where was Francois Magendie born?
What is Bordeaux, France
400
What university did both Weber and Fechner earn a degree?
University of Leipzig
400
What afterimage color does staring at the color RED produce?
GREEN
400
Method of choice for Paul Broca
Clinical Method
400
True of False: Bell was immediately famous after proposing his ideas about neurons
What is False
400
What two scientists discovered that the two hemispheres of the brain are responsible for the movement an sensations of the opposite side of body?
Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig
500
What is the two-point threshold?
smallest distance between two points where someone can detect two separate points of pressure.
500
What were Ladd-Franklin's three stages of color vision?
1) Achromatic 2) blue-yellow sensitivity 3) red-green sensitivity
500
Who found the area of the brain responsible for speech comprehension and had it named after them?
Carl Wernicke
500
What were the names of the two astronomers who working on the ship clocks?
What is Maskelyne and Kinnebrook
500
What was the profession of Muller's father?
What is Shoemaker