Chapter 1

Question 1

Hippocrates views on psychological disorders

Answer 1

Body contained four elements served by blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile

Question 2

Descartes view on the soul

Answer 2

It is undivided, independent, yet immaterial

Mind and body is two substances (Dualism)

Question 3

Cell theory

Answer 3

3 forms of soul:

1. Survival via food intake
2. Activities of organism in relation to environment
3. Higher order soul that distinguishes good from bad

Question 4

Gall claims

Answer 4

1. All psychological functions are innate
2. Each function concerns a different organ
3. Functions are located in the cortex
4. People vary in aptitude of certain functions
5. Lumps are indicative of these variations

Question 5

Clinical-anatomical method (Bouillaud)

Answer 5

Test specific loss of function in patients with focal encephalopathy

Question 6

Locke

Answer 6

Empiricist who believed nothing is innate. (tabula rasa)

Question 7

Luria model

Answer 7

three classifications of brains functional architecture

1. 3 interacting units: activation, input and output
2. 3 levels of processing: primary, secondary and tertiary zones
3. Left hemisphere is for language

Question 8

2 major developments around 1960

Answer 8

1. Work of Geschwind: charting the brain, disconnections, double dissociations
2. Sperry and split brain patients: new research methods

Question 9

Module criteria

Answer 9

1. Is domain specific
2. Is innate
3. is not influenced by other processes
4. Has its own fixed neural architecture

Question 10

David Marr

Answer 10

Studied how information is converted in to different types. He believed that certain algorithms allowed these processes.

Question 11

Warrington

Answer 11

Studied agnosia

Question 12

Marshall and Coltheart

Answer 12

Studied types of dyslexia