a) The interaction problem
b) Thinking robots
What is not a problem for substance dualism? c) Mental holism C
a) Unlike philosophical behaviorism, psychological behaviorism is a thesis
about the meaning of mental states.
b) Unlike philosophical behaviorism, psychological behaviorism faces the
problem of mental holism.
What is the difference between philosophical and c) Unlike philosophical behaviorism, psychological behaviorism is a thesis
psychological behaviorism? about the method of psychology. C
a) Type-identity theory
The multiple realizability argument is a problem b) Token-identity theory
for: c) Both type- and token-identity theory A
According to functionalism, mental states are a) Input, output and the environment
functionally characterized in terms of their b) Input, output and behavior
relations to: c) Input, output and other internal (mental) states
a) Extended cognition claims that cognitive processes depend on body and
environment, whereas situated cognition claims that body and environment
are literally part of cognitive processes
b) Extended cognition claims that cognitive processes depend on brain and
body, whereas situated cognition claims that cognitive processes depend on
brain, body and environment
c) Extended cognition claims that body and environment are literally part of
What is the difference between situated cognition cognitive processes, whereas situated cognition claims that cognitive
and extended cognition? processes depend on body and environment C
a) Theories can be derived from observation
b) Observable facts can be expressed as linguistic statements
c) Experience, knowledge and expectations can influence scientific
Inductivism attempts to show how: observations A
a) There is an intervention I on Y that results in a change of X
According to interventionism, X is the cause of Y b) We find a correlation between X and Y
when c) There is an intervention I on X that results in a change of Y C
a) An identity relation between mental states and brain states
b) A causal relation between mental states and brain states
Supervenience is: c) A dependency relation between mental states and brain states C
a) Explains how the component parts of the mechanism and their operations
are organized such that
they constitute the phenomenon you want to explain
b) Explains where the phenomenon is localized in the brain
c) Explains how we can establish causal relations between certain brain
A mechanistic explanation variables A
a) they are nearly decomposable, and affected by activity elsewhere in the
system
b) they do not contribute to the overall operation of the system, but simply
perform one of the tasks
c) they are encapsulated, which means that their activity is central to the
Modules differ from mechanisms insofar as: operations that the systems performs B
a) The stimulus response paradigm
What problem does NOT contradict "psychological b) poverty of the stimulus
behaviourism" c) the causal closure of the physical roam c
a) the mind does not exist, there is simply the brains electrical firing that
causes a behaviour (stimulus-response)
b) The ‘mind’ is a concept that refers to a set of behavioral dispositions
According to philosophical behaviourism, what is c) the mind is a seperate entitiy, that interacts with the world seperately from
the mind? the brian. Creating phenomenal conciousness. b