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Cognitive Neuroscience EXAM 1 |642 Questions withcorrect answers
what is cognitive neuroscience? Correct Answer-the scientific discipline
that examines how the brain enables the mind.
•It addresses the questions of how cognitive activities are affected or
controlled by neural circuits in the brain.
when was the term cognitive neuroscience first coined and by who?
Correct Answer-in the 1970s by Michael S Gazzaniga
•Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the
study of the ___________ processes and aspects that underlie
______________, with a specific focus on the neural connections in the
brain which are involved in ________________ processes. Correct
Answer-biological, cognition, mental
cognitive neuroscience is a branch of what two sciences? Correct
Answer-neuroscience and psychology
which disciplines does cognitive neuroscience overlap with? Correct
Answer-- behavioral neuroscience
-physiological psychology
-neuropsychology
-affective neuroscience
,why is cognitive neuroscience part of psychology Correct Answer-most
of the knowledge relies heavily on psychology
Why does cognitive neuroscience differ from other disciples like
psychology and behavioral neuroscience? Correct Answer--it focuses on
higher cognitive functions such as attention, language, memory, it
focuses more on humans
-it relies more on noninvasive neuroimaging methods.
for many years that has been a debate between to ideas in cognitive
neuroscience. what are these tow ideas that are majorly debated in
cognitive neuroscience? Correct Answer--one says that the flesh and
blood brain produces thoughts (MONISM) (ancient Greek philosopher
Thales)
-the other ideas says that the body (including the brain) has material
properties and works like a machine. whereas the mind was non material
and did not follow the laws of nature (more philosophical)
(17th-century French philosopher, Rene Descartes)(DUALISM)
what perspective from the debate does cognitive neuroscience follow?
Correct Answer-it follows the monistic perspective meaning that they
believe the conscious mind in a a product of the brains physical activity
and not separate from it.
what method does cognitive neuroscience use to study the relationship
between mental and brain activity? Correct Answer-scientific method
,what is empirical science? Correct Answer-empirical science uses
observations, manipulation and measurement to understand a
phenomenon.
is the mind is enabled by the whole brain working in concert or by
specialized parts of the brain working at least partly independently?
Correct Answer-neither one is correct, we understand the brain by
looking at both perspectives.
What is equipotentiality? Correct Answer-the idea that memory is
distributed throughout the brain rather than confined to any specific
location
are different parts of the brain specifialized? Correct Answer-yes they
are more focuses on a certain function than others.
Idea: the mind is enabled by the whole brain working in concert or by
specialized parts of the brain working at least partly independently..
there are two views. Extreme and non extreme. what are the ideas of the
extreme view and what are the ideas of the non extreme view. Are they
correct or not? Correct Answer--extreme
-believe in equipotentiality (memory is distributed throughout the brain)
- extreme functional localization
(NEITHER ARE CORRECT)
-non-extreme
, - network view (many brain regions work together to support brain
functions)
- Functional localization (diff parts of brain has diff functions)
(BOTH MAY BE CORRECT)
who was the first person that coined the term neurology? Correct
Answer-thomas wills
who was the founder of clinical neuroscience? Correct Answer-thomas
wills (he also named many anatomical regions)
What is phrenology? Correct Answer-A discipline founded by Franz
joseph Gall that stated that contours of the skulls provided information
about the cognitive capacities and personalities of individuals. (who
would correlate variations in personality/character to the variations of in
craniological signs.
According to phrenology, moral and intellectual faculties depend on the
____________________ of an individual brain. Differential
development (usage) results in differential ____________. The brain is a
"__________________" of many faculties and their physical
counterparts Correct Answer-physical structure, growth, collective
does phrenology believe in localization? Correct Answer-yes it states
that the brain is a collective network of many separate brain regions.
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