Psychology History quiz

Trephination was a procedure where a hole was made in the skull of a living person to relieve headaches, epilepsy and other physical and mental symptoms during: 

• only prehistoric times 
•  prehistoric times and is still used today with more sophisticated surgical tools 
• only ancient Greek times 
• middle ages. 

The brain versus heart debate began during ancient times. Which of the following is NOT true? 

• The ancient Egyptians placed greater emphasis on the heart over the brain. 
• Aristotle viewed the brain as an organ that required cooling through the nose. 
• Plato considered the heart as the centre of intelligence and personality. 
• Hippocrates was a physician who believed that the brain was central to intelligence and mental processes. 

Ancient Egyptian priests prepared the
dead for the Afterlife through sophisticated mummification processes. Which organ was NOT placed into a jar?

• liver
  
• lungs
  
• spleen
  
• heart 

Psychology uses a number of neuroimaging techniques. For example, fMRI shows: 

• X-rays with detailed information about the structure of the brain and body 
• highly detailed 3D images of the brain’s structure and can track the flow of oxygen when a person is asked to perform a mental task such as recalling a song title 
• brightly coloured pictures of the brain at work after injecting radioactive glucose 
• highly detailed 3D images of the brain’s structure. 

The use of general and vague statements that apply to most people is known as:

• Barnum effect
  
• Bartlet effect 
• phrenology effect
  
• none of these answers. 

According to a phrenologist, your brain is made up of brain organs, and the size of these can influence your personality and character. 

• 27
• 52
• 13
• 37

Penfield contributed significantly to our understanding of the brain. He used a probe that delivered a weak electrical charge that he applied to different locations on the surface of the brain of his patients undergoing surgery. Which of the following structures did Penfield map?

• primary somatosensory and primary motor cortices
  
• auditory cortex
  
• primary somatosensory cortex and Broca’s area
  
• primary motor cortex and the visual cortex 

A CT scan works on the basis of: 

• X-ray technology 
• tracking oxygenated blood flow through the brain 
• magnets 
• radio waves. 

One advantage of using an MRI is: 

• that it’s cheap to run 
• that it produces highly detailed 3D images of the brain 
• that it shows which areas of the brain are active during mental tasks. 
• that it’s very quiet. 

PET work on the basis of: 

• tracking radioactive glucose that is injected into the patient to show which areas of the brain are active during mental processes 
• X-ray technology to show the structures of the brain 
• tracking oxygenated blood in the brain during thinking tasks and producing a detailed computer-generated image 
• using infrared technology to detect the concentration of oxygenated blood during mental tasks.