Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prefrontal Cortex, Phineas Gage, Temporal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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There are always many possibilities, objects, memories, perceptions, etc. but only a few of them are relevant. List the historical approaches that we talked about: behaviouralism, nativism and empiricism, gestalt, structuralism. The term (cid:498)introspection(cid:499) refers to the: process of each person looking within, to observe his or her own thoughts and ideas. Historians often date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1879 laboratory of: wilhelm wundt. In the study by meuller and oppenheimer on laptop use, subjects performed worse when taking notes on the laptop because: they tended to transcribe the lecture verbatim. Myths, or misconceptions, can persist because they are difficult to test: multiple intelligences theory and its elations to neuroscience is difficult to test. Terminological differences: attention vs attention (cid:498)dopamine(cid:499), (cid:498)frontal lobes(cid:499), etc as methaphors or conceptual frameworks rather than fact. Cognition is one of the things that the brain does.