Phrenology

1.) Distinguish vitalism from materialism and explain the doctrine of specific energies of nerves. Vitalism is a belief that a life force or “vital force” existed that goes beyond the physical and chemical components of living organisms and in some part is self determining. These life energies are transmitted through the nervous system and were believed to be instantaneous. Opposed to vitalism, materialism states that physical reality is the only reality and that living matter can be…

HUMAN BRAIN: HOW SMART CAN WE GET? Watch the movie in class and, as you watch, answer the following questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE53EkxKWpw 1. What happened to Einstein’s brain? The doctor who did the autopsy on Einstein’s brain found unusual folds in the brain. Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey took numerous pictures of Einstein’s brain; therefore, he proceeded to cut the brain into cubes. 2. What did the Canadian neurologist Sandra Witelson find about Einstein’s brain? Which part…

psychopath who attempts to rationalize his actions under the guise of reason to represent the fragmented nature of the human mind. It is important to understand that at the time of the publication of "The Black Cat," Phrenology was widely practiced and popular science. In the 1840s, Phrenology was a comprehensive and profound science that focused on a…

Crime has plagued society from the beginning of time. Crime is the act of going against a formal criminal law without justification. Crime often directly harms a community or society as a whole. With crime being so harmful to our society, a big question asked in criminology is why do people continue to commit crimes? There have been several studies done in attempt of finding an answer, but since the motivation for crime is so diverse, several theories have been devised to answer the question.…

However, this way of thought has lost favor among today’s bio criminologists. Several different methodologies have been employed to detect physical differences between criminals and non-criminals. These different methodologies are physiognomy, phrenology, criminal anthropology, study of body types, heredity studies, and scientific studies of brain function and structure (Bohm & Vogel,…

however they displayed little to no empathy and a willingness to turn violent without provocation. Lombroso’s theory of biological criminality led to increased attention and exploration of the brain. This included the practice of phrenology. In response to the phrenology craze, Pritchard insisted that moral insanity stemmed from psychological dysfunction. Following the father of neurology, Charcot, Freud developed the structural system of mind, which like the days of old posed the question of…

out a campaign," as they called it. The duke went down into his carpet-bag, and fetched up a lot of little printed bills and read them out loud. One bill said, "The celebrated Dr. Armand de Montalban, of Paris," would "lecture on the Science of Phrenology" at such and such a place, on the blank day of blank, at ten cents admission, and "furnish charts of character at twenty-five cents apiece." The duke said that was him. In another bill he was the "world-renowned Shakespearian tragedian,…

When Michael Brown was shot August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis his aggressor, Officer Darren Wilson had applied what Cornell West has called an “ocular metaphysics” in this interpretation of what kind of person Michel Brown was, a criminal. In this case Daren Wilson saw that Michel was an African American, he processed a negative association that lead him to a misunderstanding, not only that, but his class authority gave him the right to shoot him and lastly his ego…

1. Discuss what a neuron is and the functions of its basic parts (dendrites, soma, axon, myelin sheath). A neuron is a nerve cell. There are about 10,000 specific types of neurons, but there are three most common neurons: sensory, motor, and interneurons. A sensory neuron sends signals to help your brain understand what is going on around you in your environment. Sensory neurons are what make up your senses, (smell, touch, see, taste, and hear.)…

“ It is true that madame had her own system for managing and regulating this mass of machinery; and a very pretty system it was: the reader has seen a small specimen of it, in that small affair of turning my pocket inside out, and reading my private memoranda. ‘Surveillance,’ ‘espionage,’ –these were her watch words” (Brontë 67). When in a situation people are often blinded by the chaos around them, only a person on the outside looking in can truly give insight to what is happening to all…