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Phineas Gage Vocabulary

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When something becomes lessened or ends, it _______.

a)

Deference

b)

Outmodes

c)

Abates

d)

Shocks

2.

_______ don't believe something is true.

a)

Executive functions

b)

Skeptics

c)

Neurotransmitters

d)

Intervals

3.

If someone tells you something is confidential, it should be kept _____.

a)

Open

b)

Secret

c)

Available

d)

None of these

4.

A neurologist is someone who treats what part of the body?

a)

Brain

b)

Spinal cord

c)

Nerves

d)

All of these

5.

If someone says they've hit bedrock, it probably means they are _______.

a)

watching the Flinstones.

b)

Digging into a layer of solid rock.

c)

angry

d)

None of these

6.

Daguerreotype was an early process in the 1850s that created _______.

a)

Food

b)

Medical techniques

c)

Photographs

d)

early X-Rays

7.

Deference means _______.

a)

Respect or regard for another's feelings.

b)

Being in a irregular or illogical state.

c)

Raised to a higher level.

d)

Physically weak.

8.

When you are being in an irrational or illogical state as a result of injury, that's also called being ______.

a)

Delirious

b)

Fundamental

c)

Localized

d)

Outmoded

9.

This is a branched extension of a nerve cell neuron that receives electrical signals from other neurons.

a)

Dendrite

b)

Humbug

c)

Neurologist

d)

Skeptic

10.

If a doctor tells you to keep your injury elevated, that means to keep it ______.

a)

Clean

b)

Dry

c)

Open

d)

Raised

11.

______ is the ability to identify with and understand another's feelings.

a)

Equinamity

b)

Empathy

c)

Manifesting

d)

Fundamental

12.

When you are calm, even in a difficult situation, you are expressing great ______.

a)

Equanimity

b)

Hype

c)

Humbug

d)

Deference

13.

Executive functions control your ability to ________.

a)

Predict

b)

Decide

c)

Interact socially

d)

All of these

14.

After Phineas' wound got infected, he was very physically weak, or _______.

a)

Feeble

b)

localized

c)

outmoded

d)

confidential

15.

The two halves of the brain that meet in the forehead is the ______.

a)

Microorganism

b)

Neurotransmitter

c)

Synapse

d)

Frontal cortex

16.

A cell is the _______, or most basic, unit of life.

a)

Fundamental

b)

Outmoded

c)

Shock

d)

Humbug

17.

People thought Phineas was a _____, or a fraud, after he told people an iron rod went through his head.

a)

Daguerreotype

b)

Skeptic

c)

Humbug

d)

Neurologist

18.

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."

a)

Confidential

b)

Infection

c)

Hype

d)

synapse

19.

The unlikelihood of being true is also called ______.

a)

Dendrite

b)

Improbability

c)

Microorganism

d)

Synapse

20.

Doctors in the 1950s really had no idea that bacteria could cause _________.

a)

Infection

b)

Bedrock

c)

Empathy

d)

Neurotransmitters

21.

There are ______, or periods of time between events, when we don't really know what happened in Phineas Gage's life.

a)

Skeptics

b)

Microorganisms

c)

Executive functions

d)

Intervals

22.

Phineas' brain damage was ________, or limited to a specific area.

a)

Localized

b)

Manifesting

c)

Outmoded

d)

Fundamental

23.

Phineas' brain damage was ___________, or showing, in his rudeness to others around him.

a)

Manifesting

b)

Elevating

c)

Localizing

d)

Relaying

24.

Laterally means _______.

a)

Vertical

b)

Sideways

c)

Slanted

d)

Diagonal

25.

Extremely small living things composed of one or two cells that can be seen through a microscope are ________.

a)

Intervals

b)

Synapses

c)

Frontal cortex

d)

Microorganisms

26.

These are chemical signals that carry nerve impulses across the synapses between neurons.

a)

Microorganisms

b)

Dendrites

c)

Neurotransmitters

d)

Skeptics

27.

Something that is old-fashioned or not widely used can also be called ________.

a)

Confidential

b)

Outmoded

c)

Shocking

d)

Localized

28.

A person who evaluates and studies behavior and mental processes is called a __________.

a)

Humbug

b)

Psychologist

c)

Dendrite

d)

Neurologist

29.

When you pass information from one person to another, you _____ the information.

a)

Relay

b)

Elevate

c)

Hype

d)

Deference

30.

Retroactively means ________.

a)

Showing

b)

Limited to a specific area

c)

Being greatly exaggerated

d)

Applying to things that happened in the past

31.

When you experience a severe injury, bleeding or burns, you may be in _______.

a)

Manifesting

b)

Shock

c)

Hype

d)

Relay

32.

The tiny space between the axon of one neuron and the connecting dendrite of another is a __________.

a)

Synapse

b)

Neurotransmitter

c)

Dendrite

d)

Frontal cortex