What is an Algorithm?
A set of operations that produces the input/output mapping of a function.
What is Behavioural Neuroscience?
A scientific field that assesses behavior and neurological factors in animals as models of human function.
What is Behaviorism?
A school of psychology that emphasized using observable stimuli and behaviors as the basis of scientific experimentation.
What is Blindsight?
A phenomenon in which someone who reports blindness due to cortical damage still shows behavior consisting with some perception.
What is Classical Conditioning?
A learning protocol in which an involuntary behavior is paired with a stimulus, eventually leading to that behavior being elicited by the stimulus alone.
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
A scientific field that merges brain imaging with behavioral experimentation.
What was the Cognitive Revolution?
A movement in the 1950’s that proposed that the mind could be understood as a computational system.
What is Cognitivism?
An approach in psychology that uses behavior as a method for developing and testing theories of the underlying processing of the mind.
The cognitive approach studies the mind by looking at behavior to test ideas about how thinking works.
What is Computational Neuroscience?
A scientific field that uses computer models of the brain to model real brain function.
What is Cortical Blindness?
A condition in which an individual with damage to the visual cortex will report having no visual experience, despite having working eyes.
What is Dualism?
The view that the mind and body consist of fundamentally different kinds of substances or properties
What is a Function?
Mappings from inputs to outputs
What are Human Factors?
A field of applied psychology concerned with the interaction between human perception and the design of systems.
What is Idealism?
The view that the only kind of reality is mental in nature.
What is the Independent Variable?
The conditions that are being manipulated by the experimenter in order to determine their effects on the dependent variable.
What are the Individual Differences?
Variations in performance across different individuals in cognitive tasks.
What is Information Processing?
An approach to human cognition that views it as a type of computation with sensory information serving as an input which is processed by the brain to determine a behavioral output.
The computational approach sees the mind like a computer: senses give input, the brain processes it, and behavior is the output.
What is Introspection?
A technique employed by structuralists to study the mind by training people to examine their own conscious experiences.
What is Latent Learning?
Learning in the absence of any reward or punishment conditioning, as in Tolman’s maze experiments.
What is the Mind-body Problem?
The question of how mental events, such as thoughts, beliefs, and sensations, are related to physical mechanisms taking place in the body.
What is Monism?
The view that there is only one kind of basic “substance” in the world, whether exclusively physical or exclusively mental.
What is Neutral Monism?
The view that the mental and physical are identical and all of reality is made of this one kind of thing.
What is Operant Conditioning?
A method of conditioning that reinforces certain behaviors through a system of rewards and punishments.
What are Opsins?
Light-activated proteins, used in optogenetics to experimentally modify the activity of neurons.
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