Bio area

Question 1

theme 1

Answer 1

regions of the brain - Sperry +Casey

Question 1

theme 2

Answer 1

brain placisity - environmental effects on the brain - Maguire+Blakemoore and Cooper

Question 2

principle

Answer 2

everything that is psychological is first biological

Question 3

applications/usefulness

Answer 3

led to innovation in DRUG THEARPY + PSYCHOSURGERY that improves others wellbeing

Question 4

Drug therapy def.

Question 5

psychosurgery

Answer 5

type of brain surgery that aims to treat mental disorders by destroying or disabling that part of the brain. EX Sperry split brain study

Question 6

Sperry application EX

Answer 6

helped us understand we might need to provide speech therapy for people with damage on their left hemisphere EX stroke victims

Question 7

strengths

Answer 7

-useful applications
-good as an area-highly controlled/scientific
-quantitive data

Question 8

weaknesses

Answer 8

-deterministic
-denies free will
-removes self
responsibility

Question 9

soft determinism

Answer 9

we have PREDETERMINED choices to pick between, predetermined choices but we get to pick between them EX Casey

Question 10

Hard determinism

Answer 10

all our action determined by internal and external factors removing any self responsibility