VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
1. what event in history caused a shift in how people viewed personal identity?-
answer >> the industrial revolution
- social mobility became possible
- individual talents became important
2. what three disciplines does this course focus on?
answer >> philosophy, neuroscience, psychology
3. idealists (early philosophers)
answer >> view that everything, including the material world, is actually the mind
4. what was George Berkeley known for in philosophy?
answer >> 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?
answer >> "I think therefore I am" famous dualist
6. dualists (early philosophers)
1/
18
, answer >> - view that the mind and body are radically ditterent things
- Plato (the Forms)
7. what is the mind-body problem answer >> what is the relationship between the mind and body? what is
the relationship between mental properties and physical properties?
8. materialists (recent philosophy)
answer >> view that mental states are just physical states
- behaviorism answer >> studying the relation between observable stimuli and observable behavioral responses
9. disturbances in the subjective experience of oneself answer >> - cotard's delusion
- body integrity identity disorder
10. disruption in the narrative self answer >> - alzheimer's disease
- retrograde and anterograde amnesia
11. disruption in the agentive self answer >> schizophrenia
12. dissociation from the self answer >> - post-traumatic stress disorder
- depersonalization disorder
- dissociative identity disorder
- autism spectrum disorder
13. disruption in the sense of being grounded in one's body answer >> - out-of-body
experiences
- doppelgänger ettect
2/
18
, 14. The Mind-Body Problem answer >> - what is the relationship between the mind and body/brain?
(mental and physical)
15. Monism answer >> there is only one kind of substance in the universe
- materialism answer >> everything that exists — including mind — is physical
- idealism answer >> everything — including the material world — is mind (George Berkeley)
3/
18