AOS 2 CHAPTER 4

Question 1

what is the brain vs heart debate?

Answer 1

a historical debate as to whether the heart or the brain is responsible for mental processes, such as thought, emotion, and behaviour

Question 2

what is the mind body problem?

Answer 2

question as to whether our mind is separate and distinguishable from our body or one entity.

Question 3

what is dualism?

Answer 3

belief that human mind and body are separate and distinguishable from one another

Question 4

what is monism?

Answer 4

belief that human mind and body are together a singualr complete entity

Question 5

what is phrenology?

Answer 5

the study of the shape and size of the human skull to determine personality and mental function

Question 6

what are the three experimental techniques?

Answer 6

ablation, brain lesioning and split brain research

Question 7

what is ablation?

Answer 7

surgical removal, destruction or cutting of a region of brain tissue

Question 8

what is brain lesioning?

Answer 8

inducing and/or studying effects of damage to an area of the brain

Question 9

what is split brain research?

Answer 9

left and brain hemispheres separated by cutting the nervous tissue that connected them.

Question 10

what is neuroimaging?

Answer 10

a range of techniques used to capture images of the brains structure, function and activities

Question 11

what structural neuroimaging techniques are used?

Answer 11

CT (computorised tomography)
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging

Question 12

what are the functional neuroimaging techniques?

Answer 12

PET (positron emission tomography
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging