Chapter 1 - The Science of the Mind Flashcards
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Introspection
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- process through which one “looks within” to observe and record the contents of one’s own mental life
2
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Behaviourist theory
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- broad principles concerned with how behaviour changes in response to different configurations of stimuli (incl. rewards and punishments
- in its early days, it sought to avoid mentalistic terms (representations or processes inside the mind)
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Transcendental method
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- Immanuel Kant
- investigator first observes the effects or consequences of a process
- then asks “What must the process have been to bring about these effects”
4
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Response time
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- amount of time (usually in ms) needed for a person to respond to a particular event
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Cognitive neuroscience
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- effort toward understanding humans’ mental functioning through close study of the brain and nervous system
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Clinical neuropsychology
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- study of brain function that uses, as its main data source, cases in which damage or illness has disrupted the working of some brain structure
7
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Neuroimaging techniques
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- noninvasive methods for examining either the structure or the activation pattern within a living brain
