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History Of Biological And Cognitive Psychology Flashcards

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Psychology

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Study of the soul

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Psychological science

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Scientific study of behaviour, the mind and brain

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Cognitive psychology

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Study of cognitive (mental) processes

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Biological psychology

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Study of the biology that gives rise to cognition and behaviour

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Cardiac hypothesis

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Mind resides in the heart.
Heart is active and warm.
Brain is cool.
Empedocles of Acragas

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Brain hypothesis

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Brain is the source of behaviour and decision making.

Alcamaeon of Croton

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What did Galen do?

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Worked with soldiers injured in battle.
Brain hypothesis/materialism: different parts of brain damages different things.
- front damage = impaired movement and speech
- back damage = impaired senses

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Rationalism

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Reason way through by guessing

Descartes

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Reflexes

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Spinal cord (no need for brain or mind)
Brain can control them
Stimulus -> response (sensory receptors -> CNS -> muscles)
Stimulus pulls on tiny wires running up nerves to brain.
Open valves in brain, cerebral-spinal fluid enter hollow nerve-tubes leading to appropriate muscles.
Inflates muscles then move.
INCORRECT!

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Dualism

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Brain gives rise to the mind but the mind is not a part of the world.

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The role of the pineal gland

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Seat of the soul.
Between two hemispheres.
Mind interacts with body here.

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Undifferentiated mass

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Brain works together.

No special function or structure.

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Pierre Flourens

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Experimental ablation of rat brains.
Demonstrated that division of the brain = different functions
Opponent of LoF
Other parts of brain can take over function of damaged ones

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Franz Josef Gall

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Phrenology

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Localization of function

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Certain parts of brain works on different functions.

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Wilder Penfield

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Cortical ablation (for epilepsy)
Electrical stimulation of the cortex
Sensory and motor homonculi

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Johannes Muller

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Doctrine of specific nerve energies
Different sensations causes by different energies in nerves.
NOT TRUE! Different receptors interpret same action potentials.

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Hermann Von Helmholtz

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Speed of neural transmission (27 m/s)

Nerve of a frog.

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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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Neuron doctrine

  • neurons are discrete and autonomous cells that can interact
  • synapses
  • dendrites -> axons
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Camillo Golgi

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Golgi stain: silver stain that would permit full visualization of a single neuron

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William Wundt

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First psychology lab in Leipzig
Structuralism: breaking down mental processes to most basic components (reduction)
Introspection: study components of consciousness, look inside yourself to describe memories, perceptions and cognitive processes

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William James

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Functionalism: what do they do, why is it useful and how are they adaptive?
Focus on purpose of consciousness, rather than structure
First complete volume in Psychology

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G. Stanley Hall

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First psychology lab in US

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Gestalt (school of thought)

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Perception-based theory

  • cognitive processes should be understood by studying their organization, not their elements (holistic perception)
  • Revealed by illusions
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Freudian (school of thought)

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“Hysterical” patients
Unconscious
- Not aware of everything but it guides behaviour
- Id, ego, super ego

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Behaviourism (school of thought)

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“Black box”
- Tabula rosa (knowledge comes from experience and perception)
- Study relation between people’s environment and their behaviour without hypothetical events occurring in their hands
Stimulus-response associations
- Little Albert, reinforcement learning

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Sir Frederic Bartlett

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False memories

Cognitive school of thought

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Jean Piaget

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Kid’s errors
Insight to the mind
Cognitive school of thought

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Noam Chomsky

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Language production

Cognitive school of thought

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George Miller

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Limited mental resources
Computer analogy
- Brain:Mind :: Hardware:Software

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Paul Broca and Patient “Tan”

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Damage to left frontal lobe
Non-fluent aphasia
- Loss of ability to understand or express speech
Cognitive psychology (school of thought)

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Phineas Gage

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Damage to orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)
Change in personality
“Frontal lobe personality”
Cognitive psychology (school of thought)

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Alexander Luria

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Credited as founder of neuropsychology
Patients with brain injury on the battlefield
Cognitive psychology (school of thought)

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Patient HM

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Surgical removal of hippocampus
Anterograde amnesia: loss of ability to create new memories
Cognitive psychology (school of thought)

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Brain plasticity and recovery of function (school of thought)

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Phantom limb syndrome (V.S. Ramachandran)
- Feel sensations in now non-existent limbs
Reorganization of the brain

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Michael Gazzaniga

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Founder of cognitive neuroscience (school of thought)

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PET scanner

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Neurochemicals tag chemicals
Track blood flow and neural activity
Cognitive neuroscience

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MRI scanner

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For structure and later on function

Cognitive neuroscience

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