LAWS 1000 Final: FINAL EXAM STUDY NOTES.docx
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Frontal lobe: motor skills, language, executive processes. Consciousness: being aware of sensations, feelings, thoughts. Cartesian dualism: the mind and body are 2 different substances; minds are infinite, bodies are finite; minds are not subjected to the laws of physics. Idealism: mind is all the exists, there is not body. Physicalism: there is no mind, only physical things; the mind is the brain; multiple realizability disproves this. Functionalism: everything can be identified by its function; minds can occur in non-brain like structures. These theories date back to the ancient greeks. Wilhem wundt: studied consciousness by using introspection. John watson: developed behaviourism only observable behaviours should be studied. John mccarthy, marvin minsky, allen newell, herbert simon: artificial intelligence. To study the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers. Encoding is the 1st step of memory; must pay attention; the hippocampus/frontal cortex decide what is encoded. Sensory memory (< 1 sec): ability to retain impressions of sensory information after stimuli ends.
