from its environment or surroundings and is made up of interrelated and interacting parts; it may also
have a distinctive or characteristic purpose or function
cognitive - Correct Answer can think (process information) and act on what it thinks; behaviour is
understandable in terms of what it is thinking
Dualism - Correct Answer Mind = spiritual entity Not subject to physical laws Cannot be studied
Monism - Correct Answer Mental events are a product of physical events Can be studied
Frontal - Correct Answer motor, complex cognitive functions
Parietal - Correct Answer somatosensation, locating objects and self in space
Temporal - Correct Answer audition, visual recognition, memory
Occipital - Correct Answer vision
neuron - Correct Answer Basic functional component of the brain Communicates via electrochemical
signalss
Dopamine - Correct Answer Involved in 1) Reward 2) Sensory processing3) Motor control
Pathologies: Too high Hallucinations Too low Motor disorders Artificially stimulated? BOTH!
Linguistics - Correct Answer the scientific study of language
Broca's area - Correct Answer forms and expresses language
, angular gyrus - Correct Answer assembles info to help understand words
insular cortex - Correct Answer motor control, emotion, self awareness, language
Wernicke's area - Correct Answer process words and sequences to determine context and meaning
Lexical semantics - Correct Answer what is the meaning of a word, including:
The Turing Test -
the Chinese Room - Correct Answer :a thought experiement devised by John Searle to show that
computers lack intentionality
Philosophical Naturalism - Correct Answer Philosophical issues can occur as stages or aspects of the
overall scientific project in two ways.
Dualism - Correct Answer Minds (the mental) and bodies (the physical) are distinct from one another.
- introspection
- private
- perception and behaviour are not essential to mentality
an objective ("scientific") account of the mind, we will inevitably leave out what is essential to minds:
their subjectivity.