Quiz 1: Jaynes’s Theory – Basic Knowledge Test your knowledge of Julian Jaynes’s theory by taking the basic knowledge quiz below! /10 11 votes, 4.7 avg 208 Quiz 1: Basic Knowledge Test you knowledge the basics of Julian Jaynes's theory. This quiz has 10 questions based on Jaynes's book. 1 / 10 Jaynes’s main argument is that consciousness was a product of evolution culturally learned about three thousand years ago genetically determined due to changes in neuroanatomical structures about three thousand years ago See Book 1, Chapter 3, "The Mind of the Iliad," and Book 2, Chapter 1, "Gods, Graves, and Idols" in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind and The Julian Jaynes Collection. 2 / 10 Consciousness emerged in the civilizations around the Mediterranean approximately in the early Paleolithic period in the twelfth century BCE in the thirty-first century BCE in the sixth century BCE See Book 1, Chapter 3, "The Mind of the Iliad," and Book 2, Chapter 1, "Gods, Graves, and Idols" in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind and The Julian Jaynes Collection. 3 / 10 Jaynes was originally trained as a psycholinguist clinical psychologist comparative psychologist evolutionary biologist For more on Julian Jaynes's life, see "Julian Jaynes: Introducing His Life and Thought" in Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited. 4 / 10 Jaynes argues that primates possess a primitive form of consciousness non-human animals and children prior to learning language cannot be conscious animals will eventually evolve and acquire consciousness primates who lived in large groupings may have once been conscious See Book 1, Chapter 2, "Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind and The Julian Jaynes Collection. 5 / 10 Jaynes argues that language switched from the right to the left hemisphere during ancient history emerged during the Neolithic period developed after consciousness so individuals could use it explain consciousness is the basis of consciousness See Book 1, Chapter 2, "Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and John Limber, "Language and Consciousness," in Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness. See additional discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind, and The Julian Jaynes Collection. 6 / 10 Bicameral mentality refers to a dual psychological organization involving a god-side and human-side the interaction between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex the two hemispheres of the brain how mammalian brains evolved bilaterally See Book 1, Chapter 4, "The Bicameral Mind," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. He further clarifies this in the Afterword on pages 452-456. See further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 7 / 10 Jaynes argues that the voices heard during the bicameral period were communications from actual gods and spirits were generated in the right hemisphere were communications from the ghosts of dead ancestors were an ancient form of telepathy See Book 1, Chapter 5, "The Double Brain," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also Part 4 of Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 8 / 10 Jaynes presents evidence that compared to the Odyssey, the Iliad exhibits more subjective language the Odyssey exhibits hero-worship, which indicates bicameral mentality compared to the Iliad, the Odyssey exhibits more subjective language the Iliad exhibits odd grammatical structures, which indicates bicameral mentality See Book 2, Chapter 5, "The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also "The Evolution of Mental Language in the Iliad and the Odyssey," in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 9 / 10 Jaynes argues that the auditory hallucinations still experienced today by millions of people around the world are the result of bad parenting practices are the result of a poor diet are a vestige of bicameral mentality are caused by a yet to be identified virus See Book 1, Chapter 1, "The Bicameral Mind," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also Bill Rowe's, "Voices Become Gods," in Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind and further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind . 10 / 10 Jaynes believes that perception is the same as consciousness occurs without conscious awareness is a primitive form of consciousness is one of the features of consciousness See Book 1, Chapter 1, "The Consciousness of Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind and The Julian Jaynes Collection. Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Please rate this quiz See review Send feedback Next Quiz > < Back to Quizzes