| Statement | DT | PT | PF | DF | DK |
1 | Thought resides in the heart: the heart is the home of mental functioning. | 2.3 | 11.4 | 12.3 | 68.2 | 5.9 |
2 | The brain pumps animal spirits around the body. | 1.4 | 3.2 | 9.5 | 80.9 | 5.0 |
3 | Brain cells join together forming a huge net of nerves. | 40.5 | 36.8 | 7.7 | 5.9 | 9.1 |
4 | Mental function resides in the brain’s hollows/spaces. | 6.8 | 34.5 | 20.0 | 21.8 | 16.8 |
5 | Drilling a hole in the skull releases evil spirits. | 0.9 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 90.5 | 1.8 |
6 | Personality can be accurately read in the bumps on the skull. | 2.7 | 6.8 | 18.2 | 65.9 | 6.4 |
7 | Mental illness can be cured by disconnecting the frontal lobes―the front part of the brain. | 1.8 | 9.1 | 27.7 | 50.9 | 10.5 |
8 | Brain injury has been shown to turn a quiet, hard-working man into an impulsive brute. | 24.1 | 43.2 | 13.6 | 9.1 | 10.0 |
9 | The whole of the brain is in charge of the ability to produce language. | 10.5 | 34.1 | 19.5 | 26.4 | 9.5 |
10 | Memory is distributed throughout the entire cortex. | 10.5 | 44.1 | 14.5 | 10.9 | 20.0 |
11 | We only use 10% of our brains. | 13.6 | 28.2 | 22.3 | 30.9 | 5.0 |
12 | Right-brained people are more creative than left-brained people. | 3.6 | 32.7 | 27.7 | 19.5 | 16.4 |
13 | The female brain is more balanced than the male. | 2.7 | 17.3 | 31.4 | 22.7 | 25.9 |
14 | Adults can’t grow new brain cells. | 6.4 | 22.3 | 27.7 | 24.5 | 19.1 |
15 | There is a “God Spot” (a place for processing faith) in the brain. | 6.4 | 21.4 | 22.7 | 34.2 | 15.5 |
16 | Pregnant women seem to lose their minds (become forgetful, slow). | 6.8 | 20.0 | 25.9 | 35.5 | 11.8 |
17 | We all need eight hours of continuous sleep a night. | 12.7 | 27.3 | 33.6 | 22.7 | 3.6 |
18 | The brain is essentially a computer. | 29.1 | 44.1 | 13.6 | 7.7 | 5.5 |
19 | The mind can exist outside the brain. | 4.5 | 17.7 | 22.7 | 37.7 | 17.3 |
20 | Neuroscience is radically transforming human self-understanding. | 33.2 | 47.7 | 5.9 | 4.1 | 9.1 |