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1 Cognitive neuroscience: definition, themes and approaches
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Which two fields contain cognitive neuroscience?Neuroscience as well as cognitive science
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What does cognitive neuroscience seek to do?Measure cognitive abilities and behavior to understand how the human brain works at all levels
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1.2 cognition
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Name why it is hard to understand an study cognitionThey arise too rapidly to be conscious and they occur automatically in the background of current processes
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1.2.1 Natural philosophy and early psychology
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Who where the pioneers of psychology in nineteenth centuryWilhelm Wundt
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1.2.2 Behaviorism
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Who where the most important names in behaviourism during the twentieth century?B.F. Skinner and John Watson
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Explain what operant conditioning does to ratsFood rewards made rats more likely to engage in whatever behavior occurred immediately before the reward
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1.2.3 Cognitive science
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What did George Miller found in the 1950'sPeople are able to represent 7 unique items at one time this was called immediate memory
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What is the focus of cognitive scienceIt focusses on information processing associated with cognitive participants (human and none), computational simulation of cognitive psychology, social psych, psychiatry etc.
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What are cognitive models trying to describeThe underlying psychological processes
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1.3 neuroscience
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What brain area where physicians interested in by the early nineteenth century?The cerebral cortex
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