What part of the brain do scientists assume was injured? What evidence is there to support this?Do you think Gage was lucky or unlucky? Why?

Here is a Journal Activity for you to complete that will require you to apply what you’ve just learned. You will be analyzing landmark cases in Psychology. This journal will require you to do some outside research. Use the Internet and local library to familiarize yourself with the cases.
Your answers should be written on lined paper. Label each page Journal Activity 3, and number each of your answers to correspond with the question. Please title the top of your Journal Entry with the name of the case you are writing about.

⦁ Phineas Gage

⦁ Describe the accident that changed Gage’s life.

⦁ Do you think Gage was lucky or unlucky? Why?

⦁ What part of the brain do scientists assume was injured? What evidence is there to support this?

⦁ How does plasticity play a role in Gage’s accident?

⦁ How did Gage die?

⦁ What happened to Gage’s body after death? Did you find this ethical or unethical? Why?

⦁ What do you find most interesting about this study?