PS260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Capgras Delusion, Positron Emission Tomography, Frontal Lobe
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Flaw: no way to test claims from introspection. Introspection does not allow for data to be procured or analyzed. Years of behaviourism: focused on objective data such as an organisms behaviour or actions, observable stimuli, emphasis on objective data led to the behaviourist movement. Flaw: a great deal of behaviour could not be explained by overt events (stimuli or responses), because the ways that people act and feel are guided by how they understand or interpret. Roots of the cognitive revolution: kant"s transcendental method (inference to best explanation, begin with the observable facts and then work backwards from these observations. The concordance of these 2 systems leads to the certainty of recognition. In capgras, emotional appraisal is missing: you look like my father, but trigger no emptional response, therefore you must be someone else (an imposter . Neural basis for capgras syndrome: sites of damage in individuals with capgras syndrome, right temporal lobe.
