cognitive neuroscience Flashcards
strength: SCIENTIFIC METHODS
uses scientific enquiry to investigate behaviour, based on objective and empirical techniques such as brain scans PET fMRI, identify which areas of the brain are responsible for specific internal mental processes, eg tulving hippocampus associated with episodic, increases int val raises scientific status
weakness: some research methods used lack mundane realism
as they require the visualising of a task whilst receiving brain scan, visualising riding a bike whilst brain scan to identify role of motor cortex in procedural memory, might not represent that way internal mental processes function when physically riding a bike, can’t be generalised to real life, lack external validity
strength: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
based on the principle that from brain scanning techniques specific brain regions have been found to be responsible for internal mental processes, such as Broca’s area producing language, identification of damage to BA led to use of interventions, neurorehabillitation, individual can recover lost function of speech and improve quality of life, important part of applied psych
