Cognitive neuroscience

Question 1

What is one strength?

Answer 1

It uses scientific methods

Question 2

What scientific methods are used?

Answer 2

It is based on objective and empirical techniques of brain scans such as PET and fMRI scans.

Question 3

What are brain scans used for?

Answer 3

There are used in order to identify which areas of the brain are responsible for specific internal mental processes e.g the importance of the hippocampus in the memory system - increasing the overall internal val

Question 4

What does this lack?

Answer 4

It lacks mundane realism

Question 5

Why does it lack mundane realism?

Answer 5

As individuals are required to visualise a task (artificial) whilst receiving the brain scan such as riding a bike to identify the role of the more cortex and cerebellum in procedural memory

Question 6

What does lacking mundane realism not represent?

Answer 6

It may not represent the way the internal mental processes function in everyday life, so more research is needed before firm conclusions are possible on cognitive neuroscience

Question 7

What can cognitive neuroscience lead to?

Answer 7

Practical applications

Question 8

Why does it have practical applications?

Answer 8

It is based on the principle that there are physical differences between people who have an abnormality and people who do not - this head lead to a fuller understanding of the role of the parahippocampal gyrus as a neural component of OCD na dhow they brain can learn new info - impact on treatments and educational intervention