Question | Answer |
Trepanation | Boring a hole in the skull to let out the demons, release pressure of imbalanced bodily humours, or to allow brain to pulsate freely |
Determinism | The belief that human behaviour follows lawful patterns, and the choices we make are beyond our control (antisocial behaviour is argued to be a direct result of abusive parenting and alcoholism) |
The Socratic Method | Is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions to stimulate rational thinking and to illuminate ideas |
Psyche (according to Plato) | The psyche was similar to a wax slate, when you encounter or experience something, it forms an impression upon your psyche |
Mental Disease (according to Plato) | Was thought to result when the appetitive part of the psych dominated the rational part of the psyche, sanity prevails when the rational psyche dominates the appetitive urges |
Rationalist | Believe reality can only be known via reason |
Empiricist | Reality can only be known via perception; concepts are derived from sensory experience |
Cardiocentrists | Believed that the heart was the seat of the soul |
Cerebrocentrists | Believed the brain was the seat of the soul |
Ventricular Theory | Galen assigned mental function to the brain and in particular the ventricles |
Phrenology | Gall theorised that there must be a direct relationship between physical anatomy (skull shape) and function (cognitive and behavioural), phrenology involves feeling the bumps on a skull to determine how the person functions |
Cerebral Localisation | Idea that parts of the brain have relatively distinct neural, behavioural or physiological functions |
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