PSY493H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Psychopathy
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Build cognitive models of information processing that occurs in brain, including: perception, attention, memory, language, memory, etc informed by behavioural analyses. Study via: lab experiments, case studies, observations, interviews. Application: cbt, memory, forgetting, depression, learning styles, eyewitness testimony. Limitations: assume mind works like a computer whereas brain is more flexible and powerful. Study brain wiring and what happens with damage. Examine disorders of nervous system how the brain works systematically, mechanistically and functionally to give rise to the observable behavior. Cognitive neuroscience: biology of the mind the study of higher cognitive functions that exist in humans, and their underlying neural bases. Studies the underlying biology of behaviour and and info processing. Clinical studies in psychopathy in patients with cognitive deficits. Application: pharmacology, brain role in pain perception, or cause of parkinson"s disease. Break down complex phenomenon into parts that make it up. Persons response is due to stimuli and consequence of thinking (reaction to.
