PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Morris Water Navigation Task, Karl Lashley, Parahippocampal Gyrus
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The field of psychology that aims to discover the brain mechanisms that give rise to human mental functions. To understand a topic, we should use multiple levels of analysis. We want to measure behavior but we also want to know what is responsible for this behavior. They were given a word and they had to find a verb that was associated to that word. They had to either main eye contact with the face of the experimenter or not. Increasing the amount of information you must process when you are asking the participant to maintain eye contact, therefore the task becomes more difficult (they respond less rapidly) Four classic approaches to understanding the mind-brain link: interactionism, epiphenominalism, parallelism, isomorphism. Early on, this view got a lot of support from people who thought that the human mind might consist of different subsystems. These modules are each designed to perform a very limited number of tasks and cannot do anything else.
