Cognitive Neuroscience: Biology Of The Mind

Question 1

Outline Dualism

Answer 1

1641
Body and brain is made of physical matter
Mind and soul made of non-physical matter, beyond neurons in the brain

Question 2

Outline materialism

Answer 2

Hobbs, 1640s
Mind and the brain are both physical brain, neurons in the brain give rise to the mind

Question 3

Why and how do humans have subjective conscious experience?

Answer 3

Inner movie of the mind composed of vision, sound, touch, taste, emotions, thoughts, memories, sense of body

Question 4

Outline behaviouralism

Answer 4

First part of the 20th century psychology was defined by behaviourism, founded by Watson
Psychology can be objectively studied through observable action

Question 5

Outline cognitive revolution

Answer 5

Chomsky- not every behaviour is the result of a learned condition response
Create and weave new words and sentences etc

Question 6

What are the strengths and weaknesses of cognitive tasks

Answer 6

-allows researchers to focus on one cognitive function and reduce interference
-provide building blocks to understand more complex cognition
-can be criticised for lacking ecological validity, tasks so simple dont reflect real life behaviour

Question 7

What is modularity

Answer 7

Specific areas in the brain relate to a specific function

Question 8

What is distributive processing

Answer 8

Processing in the brain is interconnected and more about networks and regions working together to produce complex behaviour

Question 9

Why is reduction a limitation of cognitive neuroscience

Answer 9

-reduces complex behaviour down to a simple phenomena
-task-based imaging might lack ecological validity

Question 10

Why is correlation a limitation of cognitive neuroscience

Answer 10

Correlation does not imply causation.