Carol Colomer PSY/360 Assignment: Phineas Gage May 14, 2012 Phineas Gage’s accident was considered to be one the most severe brain injuries. His personality had suffered tremendously because of this. He was injured while excavating rocks to create a pathway for railroad tracks. He had a steel rod that had pierced through his brain. That accident had caused him to suffer brain damage.
Descartes introduced the theory of dualism (the mind-body problem). According to this theory the mind and the body are two completely separate entities that work together to make up human experiences (Goodwin, 2008). Descartes played an important role in the mind-body problem, which has been a persistent issue in the history of psychology. Locke Locke was the referred to as the founder of British Empiricism. He believed that personal experiences have a large impact on the inner workings of the mind and the development of personality and behaviors.
According to Descartes, a. mind and body interact at a place in the body that is not duplicated anywhere else, namely, in the area of the heart b. animals are pure machines; humans have bodies that are machines, but they also have rational minds c. the sensory and motor components of the reflex occur in two different sets of nerves d. the ideas of self and God are learned through the experiences of early childhood 4. John Locke was the first major British Empiricist. He is associated with all of the following ideas except a. government is based on a social contract between the governors and the governed b. the only reality we can be sure of is our perception c. there are two sources of ideas: sensation and reflection d. the mind at birth is like a white paper 5. Berkeley’s philosophy has come to be called “subjective idealism” or immaterialism. He believed that a. all knowledge is innate but dormant; we have to use our reason to get at the knowledge b. the uncertainty of the physical world meant that God probably didn’t exist c. our belief in the existence of the external world depends on our perception of
THE CONCEPT OF THE MIND The mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will, and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive process. Plato was the first to make a sharp distinction between the mind and the body, holding that the mind could exist both before and after its residence in the body and could rule the body during that residence. Following the platonic distinction, Augustine developed and theorized in more detail about this distinction. But it was Descartes who first developed a systematic theory of the natures and interrelationship of the mind and body. For Descartes body and mind were substances, but with utterly different basic natures.
After the accident it appeared that he had become someone completely different exhibiting behaviors that were opposite of his core personality. Contributions to Cognitive Psychology “I think therefore I am” this famous quote by Rene Descartes can easily sum up the human condition. However it raises the question “where does thought come from?” In the study of cognitive psychology the examination of the brain is essential to understanding how and where thought originates. Early on in the science of psychology two standard schools of thought prevailed, the holistic and the phrenology or the idea that cognitive capabilities are separated throughout the brain. Although both have something to offer neither can claim full victory over truth.
Due to the trauma of the bullets in his brain and chest, Henry experienced extreme cognitive and behavioral problems upon waking up. This paper is going to discuss how cognitive functions of the brain were affected by the bullets, what areas were damaged, and the behaviors that were altered. When Henry was shot in the chest the bullet hit the subclavian artery. This caused him to suffer from anoxia. Anoxia is a shortage of oxygen to the brain which results to brain damage and can cause cognitive problems.
Watching this video significantly helped me understand the things that go on in our brains that affect our lives tremendously. A man named Marvin suffered from a stroke that damaged the left side of his brain and completely destroyed the part his brain that controlled ability to feel any emotion. Hundreds of millions of cells were damaged in the amygdala, which caused Marvin
Cognitive functions are associated with certain areas of the brain. With the case of Phineas Gage this shows how brain damage can affect a person's cognitive functioning. Though Phineas Gage survived his accident it showed that with certain parts of the brain becoming injured a person's cognitive function is affected. References Kotowicz, Z. (2007).
For instance if a player said he was alright to go back onto the field after he was examined by the doctor and told he had a head injury, the doctor would often let him. Lately the NFL has been doing research on players who had their career ended by concussions such as Troy Aikman and Steve Young. As of 1994 the NFL has taken more interest in learning about concussions and the long lasting effects it has taken on so many players. The most common head injury from concussions is TBI, this is a neurological disorder which causes sudden loss of consciousness with the human body, dropping towards the ground making the person to appear be dead. Usually this unconsciousness state lasts up to one to three
In the case of Phineas Gage’s accident researchers found specific locations within the brain which allow particular cognitive functions. In 1848 Phineas Gage underwent TBI (or traumatic brain injury), which helped advance cognitive and neuropsychologist discover and understand more about the human mind. The cliché “A mind is a terrible thing to