COGSCI 180 MIDTERM EXAM 2025 WITH 100%
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1. what event in history caused a shift in how people viewed personal identity?-
: the industrial revolution
- social mobility became possible
- individual talents became important
2. what three disciplines does this course focus on?: philosophy, neuroscience, psychology
3. idealists (early philosophers): view that everything, including the material world, is actually the mind
4. what was George Berkeley known for in philosophy?: idealist, everything you can know
for sure is actually mental, everything else is colored by perception
5. What was Rene Descartes known for in regards to mind-body?: "I think therefore I
am" famous dualist
6. dualists (early philosophers): - view that the mind and body are radically ditterent things
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, - Plato (the Forms)
7. what is the mind-body problem: what is the relationship between the mind and body? what is the
relationship between mental properties and physical properties?
8. materialists (recent philosophy): view that mental states are just physical states
- behaviorism: studying the relation between observable stimuli and observable behavioral responses
9. disturbances in the subjective experience of oneself: - cotard's delusion
- body integrity identity disorder
10. disruption in the narrative self: - alzheimer's disease
- retrograde and anterograde amnesia
11. disruption in the agentive self: schizophrenia
12. dissociation from the self: - post-traumatic stress disorder
- depersonalization disorder
- dissociative identity disorder
- autism spectrum disorder
13. disruption in the sense of being grounded in one's body: - out-of-body experiences
- doppelgänger ettect
14. The Mind-Body Problem: - what is the relationship between the mind and body/brain? (mental and
physical)
15. Monism: there is only one kind of substance in the universe
mailto:https://www.stuvia.com/user/Wisdoms
, - materialism: everything that exists — including mind — is physical
- idealism: everything — including the material world — is mind (George Berkeley)
mailto:https://www.stuvia.com/user/Wisdoms
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1. what event in history caused a shift in how people viewed personal identity?-
: the industrial revolution
- social mobility became possible
- individual talents became important
2. what three disciplines does this course focus on?: philosophy, neuroscience, psychology
3. idealists (early philosophers): view that everything, including the material world, is actually the mind
4. what was George Berkeley known for in philosophy?: idealist, everything you can know
for sure is actually mental, everything else is colored by perception
5. What was Rene Descartes known for in regards to mind-body?: "I think therefore I
am" famous dualist
6. dualists (early philosophers): - view that the mind and body are radically ditterent things
mailto:https://www.stuvia.com/user/Wisdoms
, - Plato (the Forms)
7. what is the mind-body problem: what is the relationship between the mind and body? what is the
relationship between mental properties and physical properties?
8. materialists (recent philosophy): view that mental states are just physical states
- behaviorism: studying the relation between observable stimuli and observable behavioral responses
9. disturbances in the subjective experience of oneself: - cotard's delusion
- body integrity identity disorder
10. disruption in the narrative self: - alzheimer's disease
- retrograde and anterograde amnesia
11. disruption in the agentive self: schizophrenia
12. dissociation from the self: - post-traumatic stress disorder
- depersonalization disorder
- dissociative identity disorder
- autism spectrum disorder
13. disruption in the sense of being grounded in one's body: - out-of-body experiences
- doppelgänger ettect
14. The Mind-Body Problem: - what is the relationship between the mind and body/brain? (mental and
physical)
15. Monism: there is only one kind of substance in the universe
mailto:https://www.stuvia.com/user/Wisdoms
, - materialism: everything that exists — including mind — is physical
- idealism: everything — including the material world — is mind (George Berkeley)
mailto:https://www.stuvia.com/user/Wisdoms
