Quiz 3: Jaynes’s Theory – Advanced Concepts Test your knowledge of Julian Jaynes’s theory by taking the advanced concepts the quiz below! /10 6 votes, 4.7 avg 95 Quiz 3: Advanced Concepts Test you knowledge of advanced concepts on Julian Jaynes's theory. This quiz has 10 questions based on both Jaynes's book and JJS publications. 1 / 10 Jaynes speculates that during “spirit possession” the right hemisphere produces articulated speech but this is controlled by the left hemisphere articulated speech signals a complete return to bicameral mentality articulated speech is shaped by hypnotic trance the left hemisphere produces articulated speech but this is controlled by the right hemisphere See Book 3, Chapter 2, "Of Prophets and Possession," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also discussion of spirit possession in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 2 / 10 Building on Jaynes's work, other scholars have found significant evidence for the transition from bicameral mentality to consciousness in Native Americans East Africans China and Tibet Papua New Guinea See Michael Carr, "The Shi 'Corpse/Personator' Ceremony in Early China" in Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness, and Todd Gibson, "Souls, Gods, Kings, and Mountains" and "Listening for Ancient Voices," in Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind 3 / 10 The four components of a metaphor as identified by Jaynes are metaphier, metaphrand, paraphor, paralipsis metaphier, analogy, vehicle, tenor metaphier, metonymy, paraphor, paralipsis metaphier, metaphrand, paraphier, paraphrand See Book 1, Chapter 2, "Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also "Echoes of the Gods: Towards a Jaynesian Understanding of Rhetoric," in Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind and "Metaphor and the Rhetorical Structuring of Consciousness" in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 4 / 10 In Jaynes's book, he uses the word “struction” to mean a part of the brain that structures and shapes its neurodevelopment how the mind finds solutions; from “instruction” (order) plus “construction” (materials) certain features of the social order shaped by bicameral mentality a type of structure found in many temples that contained images See Book 1, Chapter 1, "The Consciousness of Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, specifically page 39. 5 / 10 “Aptic structures” describe Jaynes’s updated term for instincts the acceptable social structures of bicameral times an architectural feature of ancient temples that focused worshipers’ attention the appropriate behavioral patterns expected from the gods See Book 1, Chapter 1, "The Consciousness of Consciousness" (page 31, footnote 8) and Book 1, Chapter 6, "The Origin of Civilization," (p. 135) in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. 6 / 10 Over the past two decades, studies in neuroscience have largely discovered the location of consciousness in the brain confirmed Jaynes's neurological model discovered the causes of schizophrenia debunked Jaynes's neurological model For a discussion on this topic, see Neuroscience Confirms Julian Jaynes’s Neurological Model and Chapters 21 and 22 in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 7 / 10 As defined by Jaynes, “preconscious hypostases” are a hypothesis formed by preconscious individuals ancient Greek words for physiological responses that developed over time into "mind words" the assumed supernatural cause of behavior a hypothesis formed by gods and told to individuals See Book 2, Chapter 1, "The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and "The Evolution of Mental Language in the Iliad and the Odyssey in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 8 / 10 Jaynes argues that the ability of some animals to recognize a spot painted on themselves in a mirror has been "passed" by pigeons and only shows bodily awareness demonstrates self-consciousness demonstrates a sense of self shows consciousness evolved over millions of years See the Afterword to Jaynes's book (p. 460) as well as "In A Manner of Speaking: Commentary on Cognition and Consciousness in Non-Human Species" and "Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind: McMaster-Bauer Symposium Discussion," in The Julian Jaynes Collection. 9 / 10 The “general bicameral paradigm” describes the god-governed societies of the bicameral period religious beliefs of bicameral societies linguistic structure of bicameral mentality the psychological structure behind behaviors of diminished consciousness that are partial bicameral holdovers See Book 3, Chapter 1, "The Quest for Authorization," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. 10 / 10 The “collective cognitive imperative” describes the highly communal atmosphere of bicameral times orders and commands given by gods the authoritative approach of ancient religious rulers a set of beliefs held by a community that shapes the behavior of its members See Book 3, Chapter 1, "The Quest for Authorization," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also "Authorizing Clinical Hypnosis: From Bicameral Mentality to Autonomy" in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. Your score is The average score is 63% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Please rate this quiz See review Send feedback Back to Quizzes