Self Study Assignments voor Filosofie in de Psychologie
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Course
Filosofie En Psychologie
Institution
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Book
Philosophy of mind, brain and behaviour
In dit document zijn er in totaal 5 verschillende SSA's waarin verschillende concepten van filosofie in de psychologie worden benaderd gebaseerd op het boek Philosophy of Mind, Brain and Behavior van Marc Slors, Leon de Bruin & Derek Strijbos
Naam : Ghazala Wagid Hosain
Docent : Leon de Bruin
Tutor : Cato Benschop
Cursus : Filosofie
Opleiding : Psychologie
Datum : 31 december 2020
, SSA Week 1 t/m 7
Inhoudsopgave
SSA Week 1................................................................................................................................................... 3
a. What’s wrong with the arguments for substance dualism?............................................................................3
b. Explain why mental holism a problem for behaviorism is................................................................................3
c. What is multiple realizability? Why is this a problem for the type-identity theory?........................................3
d. Explain what functionalism is and how it deals with the problem of multiple realizability.............................4
SSA Week 2................................................................................................................................................... 5
a. What is folk psychology or ‘mindreading’?......................................................................................................5
b. What are Churchland’s arguments for the elimination of folk psychology?....................................................5
c. Why is it problematic to conclude that the chimpanzee in the experiment by Premack and Woodruff has an
understanding of false belief?..............................................................................................................................5
d. What are the methodological difficulties with the interpretation of mirror neuron activity?.........................5
SSA Week 4................................................................................................................................................... 7
a. Explain the following four paradigms of research, as described by Ioannidis: optimal, self-correcting, false
nonreplication and perpectuated fallacy.............................................................................................................7
b. What is the difference between causation and correlation?...........................................................................7
c. What is the common-sense concept of science?..............................................................................................7
d. Explain the idea of theory-ladenness and why it poses a problem for inductivism.........................................7
SSA Week 6................................................................................................................................................... 9
a. Explain the concept of informed consent.........................................................................................................9
b. Why does Deep Brain Stimulation cause a delimma, according to Kraemer?.................................................9
c. Give an argument for the view that mental disorders are social constructs....................................................9
d. Explain the Barnum effect in the context of psychiatric classification.............................................................9
SSA Week 7.................................................................................................................................................. 11
a. What is the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ and what does this problem have to do with functionalism? 11
b. Explain the difference between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness................................11
c. Explain the libertarian concept of free will.....................................................................................................11
d. Why is determinism not a problem for free will, according to compatibilism?.............................................12
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