COGSCI 180 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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) - 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
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, COGSCI 180 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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)
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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) - 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
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, COGSCI 180 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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)
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