Lecture 1 Q &A Flashcards
What are the 4 C’s?
Connection,Compartmentalization, Consolidation, Cognition (not S-R)
What is reductionism?
Taking the brain apart or “going down”
What is synthesis?
Ability to see all the connections/ Seeing the entire system at once. “going up”
What is synthesis?
Ability to see all the connections/ Seeing the entire system at once. “going up”
What form of thinking dominates science?
Reductionism has dominated brain science.
What is the best approaches to science?
The best science balances reductionistic and synthetic approaches. Ex. Diabetes related to Alzhiemer’s
Learning and Memory cannot be ___ directly measured but can only be ___ from behavior
1) assayed 2) inferred
What are techniques?
come and go and are neither necessary nor sufficient for scientific advancement.
What did Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek discover?
He observed the presence of “animalcules”.
What did Robert Hook discover?
He found little things that resembled prison cells and thus came up with the term cell.
Perception is a ___ or constructive process
building
What is the Thatcher illusion?
Brains have evolved to recognize faces in a certain orientation (upright).
What did Edme Mariotte discover?
He discovered the blind spot.
Memory is a __ process
constructive
What are the two categories of techniques?
1) Interventive 2) Correlative
