Cognitive Psychology

Question 1

Methods?

Answer 1

Neuropsychology, imaging, experimental, introspection and complementary.

Question 2

Baars, 1988 contrasted what?

Answer 2

Conscious and unconscious processes

Differences allow us to infer the functions of consciousness

LSD + placebo studies=

AP, I/E learning, P, M, AB, EE.

Question 3

Sperry, 1968 split brain research?

Answer 3

Quasi experiments,

patients with corpus callosum split for epilepsy

No effect on intelligence- each hemisphere had its own consciousness

Question 4

What were the problems with Sperry’s research?

Answer 4

Gazzinaga, 2000: only one conscious system- left side is interpreter.

Lacks ecological validity
Sample size- inadequate

Question 5

Weiskrantz, 1974 blindsight?

Answer 5

Patient: DB

Procedure to remove deformity int he brain= no conscious awareness of anything in lower left quadrant.

Question 6

What other research has been conducted for blindsight?

Answer 6

Colour information- Cowey, 1992

Emotional expressions- Gelder, 1999

Meaning of words- Marcel, 1998

Question 7

Solso, 2008 FMRI study?

Answer 7

Addressing of the hard problem of consciousness!

Sleep, deep brain stimulation, vegetative states, stroke and epilepsy.

Default mode network

Question 8

Limitations of research? 4

Answer 8

Lack of Eco. validity

Poor sample sizes- affecting generalisability

Severity of brain damage differs

Collated data- undermines individual diff.

Question 9

What was CP do?

Answer 9

Identifies the correlates of consciousness!

Not the causes or where neural activity occurs!