Module 2-3 Flashcards

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Mind-body problem

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The question of how mental events such as thoughts, beliefs and sensations are related to physical mechanisms taking place in the body

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Dualism

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The view that the mind and body consist of fundamentally different kinds of substances or properties.
-while the body may be made of a physical material, the mind is not

For much or recorded history, most people subscribed to some form of dualism.

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Monism

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The view that there is only one kind of basic substance in the world, whether exclusively physical or exclusively mental.

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Physicalism-materialism

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The only kind of reality is physical reality.

Ex. Ideas forming in your brain are driven by physical processes

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Idealism

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The view that all of reality is mental in nature.

—) the ideas forming in your brain are all mental processes

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Neutral monism

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The view that the mental and physical are identical and all lf reality is made of this one kind of thing.

—) something else directing mental and physical experiences, we dont know what. Neither just physical or mental

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3 types of monism

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Idealism, neutral monism, materialism

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Plato and dualism

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Plato argued that the mind was based on an immortal soul that was, in some sense, more “real” than the physical world

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René Descartes

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He proposed that the mind and body formed two different types of substance but that these could interact with one another (he identified pineal gland)

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True or false: dualism recognizes that the mind and body have a strong relationship with one another

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True. Peope were aware that the processes of the physical body affects the workings of the mind. However, according to dualism, the mind and body are still separate kinds of entities.

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Structuralism

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A school of psychology whose approach relied on introspecting on one’s own conscious mental states in order to understand the mind.

-breakinf down complext processes into simpler elements
-identify the basic elements of thought. Are do they combine together to form complex thoughts?
-relied on introspection and self-report: not reliable across people, some are rlly good introspecters and some are not. introspection does not live up to its ideal as a scientifically valid method. Hard to replicate too.

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Cortical blindness

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Condition where individuals with damage to tje visual cortez will report having no visual experience, despite having working eyes

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Blindsight

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Condition where individuals think they are blind but they are still able to behaviorally respond to a visual stimulus

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Think-aloud protocol

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Research method that involves participants verbally describe their thought process as they are performing a specified task

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Dualism: interactionism

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The mind and brain interact to induce events in each other

-subscribes to the idea that we have a soul
-rene descartes saying pineal gland is the principal seat of the soul

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Dualism: epiphenomenalism

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Mental thoughts are caused by physical events, but thoughts do not affect physical events

-one way interaction

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Phrenology

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Process that involved obersving and feelin the skull to determine an individual’s psychological attributes.

-parts of the brain correspond to mental functions and personality
-false assumption that the highly developed functions have larger brain areas

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Functional specialization

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Modern cognitive neuroscience indentifies brain area or networks that support a particular brain function

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Skin conductance

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-Skin conducts electricity when it sweats
-to measure emotional arousal
-then can test how emotional arousal impacts cognitive tasks

Ex veterans with PTSD and veterans without PTSD: higher skin conductance in people with PTSD when hearing combat sounds

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Electroencephalography (EEG)

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EEG measures activity in a large group of neurons at certain times. Estimate of when brain is active

-good timing (temporal resolution)
-not good location info (spatial resolution)

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Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI)

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Structural MRI: anatomy of brain, used to degect structural anomalies

Functional fMRI: info about activity in the brain. Indirect measure as it measures blood flow and not neural activity. Active brain areas need oxygen. Magnet detects changes in ocygenated blood.

-good spatial resolution
-bad temporal resolution (timing of brain activity) + indirect measure so based on assumption that increase in blood flow = more activity

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Brain stimulation

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Can inhibit or increase activity

-main form in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Induces tempory change in brain activity: may improve memory

-good to test causality, but not very clear + broad effects so hard to localize effects

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Parahippocampal place area (PPA)

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For thinking about spacial layouts

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Supplementary motor area (SMA)

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For performing or imagining movement

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Multi-voxel pattern analysis

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A data-analysis that uses machine learning to decode what task or stimulus a participant is engaging in, based on the distribution of activity across the brain

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What lobe is responsible for attention and somatosensory processing

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Parietal lobe

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What lobe is responsible for meaning of sensory informayion and language

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Temporal lobe

28
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What love is responsible for executuve control and planning

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Frontal lobe

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True or false: dualism is related to the idea of a soul or spirit

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True. And in the western world it was first formally articulated by the greek philosopher Plato around 350 B.C

In the 17th century, the french philosopher descartes made the distinction between mind and matter more precise: he proposed that the mind and body formed 2 different kinds of substance but could interact with one another