Resrarch Methods 1 Cog

Question 1

What’s dualism

Answer 1

Descartes

World is made up of two incompatible substances the mind (mental) and the world (physical)

Question 2

What’s behaviourism?

Answer 2

Laws of behaviour contain statements about things that are observable and can be measured

Question 3

Testability is falsifiability. Explain?

Answer 3

Falsifiable

Need to understand the conditions under which they fail

Question 4

What’s Occam’s razor?

Answer 4

Keep things as simple as possible

Question 5

What’s the black box?

Answer 5

The mind

Question 6

What analogy is used to explain the mind

Answer 6

A computer

Question 7

Symbolic representation

Answer 7

How the input is represented by the computer by symbols

Question 8

What’s the software and what’s the hardware?

Answer 8

Software - mind

Hardware - body and brain

Question 9

What’s the symbol grounding theory?

Answer 9

“A clock doesn’t understand time just represents the information”

Question 10

What’s fMRI?

Answer 10

Functional magnetic reasonance imaging

Blood movement activity (oxygen and glucose) to measure brain activity

Question 11

What’s the cognitivist approach?

Answer 11

An approach to studying behaviour