Neuroscience of behaviour

Question 1

Cartesian Dualism

Answer 1

Mental cannot exist outside body and body cannot think

Criticism- what is non physical substance that isn’t brain?

Question 2

Reductive Physicalism

Answer 2

Everything explicable by physical

Question 3

Interactionism:

Answer 3

Mental affects physical health

Question 4

Epiphenominalsm

Answer 4

Physical affects mental, mental doesn’t affect physical

Question 5

Mysterterism

Answer 5

Mind only understood by reflection

Question 6

Challenges to dualism in medicine

Answer 6

Biomedical model- class, environment, illness affect people in different ways

Question 7

Why does biomedical model predominate?

Answer 7

Familiar, reductionism favours science, power, economic

Question 8

Neocortex

Answer 8

Rational thinking

Question 9

Limbic brain

Answer 9

Emotions

Question 10

Reptilian Brain

Answer 10

Homeostasis and survival

Question 11

Frontal lobe

Answer 11

Executive thinking

Question 12

Tests of frontal lobe function

Answer 12

Similarities- ie of fruit
Cognitive estimates
Verbal fluency

Question 13

Schizophrenia positive symptoms

Answer 13

Delusions
Thought disorder
Hallucinations

Question 14

Schizophrenia negative symptoms

Answer 14

Withdrawn
Unemotional
Not able to carry on normal activities

Question 15

Biological correlates with schizophrenia

Answer 15

Brain volume
Dopamine theory- dopamine blockers are main treatment
Functional imaging

Question 16

Non biological correlates

Answer 16

Urbanicity
Social class
Childhood trauma
Stress

Question 17

Classification of mental disorder benefits

Answer 17

Facilitate reporting
Inform of public health issues
Allocation of resources

Question 18

Problems with classification of mental disorders

Answer 18

Stigma
Oversimplification
Means drinking arbitrary thresholds