COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS
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Cognitive Neuroscience Final Paper 2026/2027
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Question:
Pioneer of behaviorism
Answer:
B.F. SKINNER (1904-1990) - ✔✔ ✔✔GEORGE A MILLER (1920-2012) - ✔✔Originally a
behaviorist Gradually changed his view "Psychology, the Science of Mental Life" "The Magical
Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" Brought concept of working memory to the forefront Linguistic
work "Language and communication", 1951 "The psychology of communication", 1967
Collaborated with Noam Chomsky
Question:
Credited as the father of "cognitive neuroscience"
Answer:
NOAM CHOMSKY (1928 -) - ✔✔Focused on language "father of modern linguistics" Focused on
language acquisition Showed that associationism/ behaviorism could not explain how we acquire
language: the pace of acquisition is too rapid for Skinner type mechanisms
Question:
Played a key role in the shift away from behaviorism
Answer:
EVOLUTION IN SCIENTIFIC APPROACH - ✔✔From the mid 1950s-1970s it became clear that
the approaches of physiology, philosophy, neuropathology or experimental psychology alone could
not explain all of learning and behavior.
Question:
, George Miller and other scientists (including Gazzaniga) set out to understand how the brain and
mind work as an integrated whole, with a unitary scientific approach, which eventually led to.
Answer:
TOOLS OF NEUROSCIENCE - ✔✔Development of imaging technologies CRITICAL to the
progress of Cognitive Neuroscience Electroencephalograph Computerized Axial Tomography
(CAT) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Question:
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Answer:
Who is Paul Lauterbur? - ✔✔ ✔✔IN SUM - ✔✔• Cognitive Neuroscience is the integration of the
study of the parts and the whole which enable the mind (the brain + cognition). Empirical and
evidence based field of study and theories are continually being revised and updated
Question:
Both physiological and psychological approaches are necessary to achieve the scientific aims of
cognitive neuroscience research.
Answer:
Chapter 2 Structure & Function of the Nervous System: Neurons - ✔✔ ✔✔The Neuron - ✔✔
✔✔Amazing facts about neurons - ✔✔Ü Brain contains over 100 billion neurons Ü Octopus 300
million, a bee 950,000 Ü A single neuron may connect to as many as 200,000 cells Ü Typical 1,000
to 10,000 Ü Total of.15 quadrillion synapses Ü Length of giraffe primary afferent axon (toe to
spine) is fifteen feet Ü Conduction velocity of the action potential is 1.2-250 mph ✔✔Santiago
Ramon y Cajal - ✔✔As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of
the brain will also be a mystery - Ramon Cajal 1892 ✔✔What Makes Up Your Nervous System? -
✔✔Neurons Ü Means of communication Ü Highways and bridges Ü Glia/ glial cells/ neuroglial
cells Ü Greek for "glue" Ü support structure for the neurons Ü Cited as outnumbering neurons 10/1
✔✔Cells of the Nervous System - ✔✔Neurons: Transmit Information Glia: Supporting structures
and damage repair 3 parts N Cell body/soma (1) metabolic Dendrites (X) rec info via synapses Axon
(1) Sends info Information flows along neurons in only one direction Neurons all have same parts
but can look very different and vary widely in size and shape ✔✔Structure of the Neuron - ✔✔
✔✔Pyramidal - ✔✔ ✔✔Purkinje - ✔✔ ✔✔Neuronal Connections: Synaptic Transmission - ✔✔
✔✔A closer look at synapses - ✔✔ ✔✔AXONS - ✔✔ ✔✔Glial Cells ("brain glue") -
✔✔Schwann cells main type of glia In the PNS - needed for insulation (faster information travel)
and metabolic support (thinking is energy demanding) - also help to regrow axons if peripheral
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Cognitive Neuroscience Final Paper 2026/2027
Questions and Answers Verified Solutions Latest
Update
Question:
Pioneer of behaviorism
Answer:
B.F. SKINNER (1904-1990) - ✔✔ ✔✔GEORGE A MILLER (1920-2012) - ✔✔Originally a
behaviorist Gradually changed his view "Psychology, the Science of Mental Life" "The Magical
Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" Brought concept of working memory to the forefront Linguistic
work "Language and communication", 1951 "The psychology of communication", 1967
Collaborated with Noam Chomsky
Question:
Credited as the father of "cognitive neuroscience"
Answer:
NOAM CHOMSKY (1928 -) - ✔✔Focused on language "father of modern linguistics" Focused on
language acquisition Showed that associationism/ behaviorism could not explain how we acquire
language: the pace of acquisition is too rapid for Skinner type mechanisms
Question:
Played a key role in the shift away from behaviorism
Answer:
EVOLUTION IN SCIENTIFIC APPROACH - ✔✔From the mid 1950s-1970s it became clear that
the approaches of physiology, philosophy, neuropathology or experimental psychology alone could
not explain all of learning and behavior.
Question:
, George Miller and other scientists (including Gazzaniga) set out to understand how the brain and
mind work as an integrated whole, with a unitary scientific approach, which eventually led to.
Answer:
TOOLS OF NEUROSCIENCE - ✔✔Development of imaging technologies CRITICAL to the
progress of Cognitive Neuroscience Electroencephalograph Computerized Axial Tomography
(CAT) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Question:
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Answer:
Who is Paul Lauterbur? - ✔✔ ✔✔IN SUM - ✔✔• Cognitive Neuroscience is the integration of the
study of the parts and the whole which enable the mind (the brain + cognition). Empirical and
evidence based field of study and theories are continually being revised and updated
Question:
Both physiological and psychological approaches are necessary to achieve the scientific aims of
cognitive neuroscience research.
Answer:
Chapter 2 Structure & Function of the Nervous System: Neurons - ✔✔ ✔✔The Neuron - ✔✔
✔✔Amazing facts about neurons - ✔✔Ü Brain contains over 100 billion neurons Ü Octopus 300
million, a bee 950,000 Ü A single neuron may connect to as many as 200,000 cells Ü Typical 1,000
to 10,000 Ü Total of.15 quadrillion synapses Ü Length of giraffe primary afferent axon (toe to
spine) is fifteen feet Ü Conduction velocity of the action potential is 1.2-250 mph ✔✔Santiago
Ramon y Cajal - ✔✔As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of
the brain will also be a mystery - Ramon Cajal 1892 ✔✔What Makes Up Your Nervous System? -
✔✔Neurons Ü Means of communication Ü Highways and bridges Ü Glia/ glial cells/ neuroglial
cells Ü Greek for "glue" Ü support structure for the neurons Ü Cited as outnumbering neurons 10/1
✔✔Cells of the Nervous System - ✔✔Neurons: Transmit Information Glia: Supporting structures
and damage repair 3 parts N Cell body/soma (1) metabolic Dendrites (X) rec info via synapses Axon
(1) Sends info Information flows along neurons in only one direction Neurons all have same parts
but can look very different and vary widely in size and shape ✔✔Structure of the Neuron - ✔✔
✔✔Pyramidal - ✔✔ ✔✔Purkinje - ✔✔ ✔✔Neuronal Connections: Synaptic Transmission - ✔✔
✔✔A closer look at synapses - ✔✔ ✔✔AXONS - ✔✔ ✔✔Glial Cells ("brain glue") -
✔✔Schwann cells main type of glia In the PNS - needed for insulation (faster information travel)
and metabolic support (thinking is energy demanding) - also help to regrow axons if peripheral
