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WorksheetsPhineas Gage Vocabulary
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
When something becomes lessened or ends, it _______.
Deference
Outmodes
Abates
Shocks
_______ don't believe something is true.
Executive functions
Skeptics
Neurotransmitters
Intervals
If someone tells you something is confidential, it should be kept _____.
Open
Secret
Available
None of these
A neurologist is someone who treats what part of the body?
Brain
Spinal cord
Nerves
All of these
If someone says they've hit bedrock, it probably means they are _______.
watching the Flinstones.
Digging into a layer of solid rock.
angry
None of these
Daguerreotype was an early process in the 1850s that created _______.
Food
Medical techniques
Photographs
early X-Rays
Deference means _______.
Respect or regard for another's feelings.
Being in a irregular or illogical state.
Raised to a higher level.
Physically weak.
When you are being in an irrational or illogical state as a result of injury, that's also called being ______.
Delirious
Fundamental
Localized
Outmoded
This is a branched extension of a nerve cell neuron that receives electrical signals from other neurons.
Dendrite
Humbug
Neurologist
Skeptic
If a doctor tells you to keep your injury elevated, that means to keep it ______.
Clean
Dry
Open
Raised
______ is the ability to identify with and understand another's feelings.
Equinamity
Empathy
Manifesting
Fundamental
When you are calm, even in a difficult situation, you are expressing great ______.
Equanimity
Hype
Humbug
Deference
Executive functions control your ability to ________.
Predict
Decide
Interact socially
All of these
After Phineas' wound got infected, he was very physically weak, or _______.
Feeble
localized
outmoded
confidential
The two halves of the brain that meet in the forehead is the ______.
Microorganism
Neurotransmitter
Synapse
Frontal cortex
A cell is the _______, or most basic, unit of life.
Fundamental
Outmoded
Shock
Humbug
People thought Phineas was a _____, or a fraud, after he told people an iron rod went through his head.
Daguerreotype
Skeptic
Humbug
Neurologist
P.T. Barnum's circus gathered a lot of _____, or exaggerated publicity, to excite public interest in things like "Bearded ladies" and a man "with a hole in his head."
Confidential
Infection
Hype
synapse
The unlikelihood of being true is also called ______.
Dendrite
Improbability
Microorganism
Synapse
Doctors in the 1950s really had no idea that bacteria could cause _________.
Infection
Bedrock
Empathy
Neurotransmitters
There are ______, or periods of time between events, when we don't really know what happened in Phineas Gage's life.
Skeptics
Microorganisms
Executive functions
Intervals
Phineas' brain damage was ________, or limited to a specific area.
Localized
Manifesting
Outmoded
Fundamental
Phineas' brain damage was ___________, or showing, in his rudeness to others around him.
Manifesting
Elevating
Localizing
Relaying
Laterally means _______.
Vertical
Sideways
Slanted
Diagonal
Extremely small living things composed of one or two cells that can be seen through a microscope are ________.
Intervals
Synapses
Frontal cortex
Microorganisms
These are chemical signals that carry nerve impulses across the synapses between neurons.
Microorganisms
Dendrites
Neurotransmitters
Skeptics
Something that is old-fashioned or not widely used can also be called ________.
Confidential
Outmoded
Shocking
Localized
A person who evaluates and studies behavior and mental processes is called a __________.
Humbug
Psychologist
Dendrite
Neurologist
When you pass information from one person to another, you _____ the information.
Relay
Elevate
Hype
Deference
Retroactively means ________.
Showing
Limited to a specific area
Being greatly exaggerated
Applying to things that happened in the past
When you experience a severe injury, bleeding or burns, you may be in _______.
Manifesting
Shock
Hype
Relay
The tiny space between the axon of one neuron and the connecting dendrite of another is a __________.
Synapse
Neurotransmitter
Dendrite
Frontal cortex
