COGSCI 180 MIDTERM ACTUAL 2026
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS||
GRADED A+|| LATEST UPDATE 2026
what event in history caused a shift in how people viewed personal identity? -
CORRECTANSWER the industrial revolution
- social mobility became possible
- individual talents became important
what three disciplines does this course focus on? -CORRECTANSWER philosophy,
neuroscience, psychology
idealists (early philosophers) -CORRECTANSWER view that everything, including the
material world, is actually the mind
what was George Berkeley known for in philosophy? -CORRECTANSWER idealist,
everything you can know for sure is actually mental, everything else is colored by
perception
What was Rene Descartes known for in regards to mind-body? -CORRECTANSWER "I
think therefore I am" famous dualist
,dualists (early philosophers) -CORRECTANSWER - view that the mind and body are
radically different things
- Plato (the Forms)
what is the mind-body problem -CORRECTANSWER what is the relationship between
the mind and body? what is the relationship between mental properties and physical
properties?
materialists (recent philosophy) -CORRECTANSWER view that mental states are just
physical states
- behaviorism: studying the relation between observable stimuli and observable
behavioral responses
disturbances in the subjective experience of oneself -CORRECTANSWER - cotard's
delusion
- body integrity identity disorder
disruption in the narrative self -CORRECTANSWER - alzheimer's disease
- retrograde and anterograde amnesia
disruption in the agentive self -CORRECTANSWER schizophrenia
dissociation from the self -CORRECTANSWER - post-traumatic stress disorder
, - depersonalization disorder
- dissociative identity disorder
- autism spectrum disorder
disruption in the sense of being grounded in one's body -CORRECTANSWER - out-of-
body experiences
- doppelgänger effect
The Mind-Body Problem -CORRECTANSWER - what is the relationship between the
mind and body/brain? (mental and physical)
Monism -CORRECTANSWER there is only one kind of substance in the universe
- materialism: everything that exists — including mind — is physical
- idealism: everything — including the material world — is mind (George Berkeley)
- transcendental idealism: subtype of idealism that integrates idealism with empiricism,
which emphasizes the importance of sensory experience (Kant)
Dualism -CORRECTANSWER theory that the mental and the physical — or the mind
and body/brain — are, in some sense, radically different kinds of thing
- Descartes (mind-body dualism): our human senses are unreliable, evil genius thought
experiment (must have a mind)
- brain in a vat theory
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS||
GRADED A+|| LATEST UPDATE 2026
what event in history caused a shift in how people viewed personal identity? -
CORRECTANSWER the industrial revolution
- social mobility became possible
- individual talents became important
what three disciplines does this course focus on? -CORRECTANSWER philosophy,
neuroscience, psychology
idealists (early philosophers) -CORRECTANSWER view that everything, including the
material world, is actually the mind
what was George Berkeley known for in philosophy? -CORRECTANSWER idealist,
everything you can know for sure is actually mental, everything else is colored by
perception
What was Rene Descartes known for in regards to mind-body? -CORRECTANSWER "I
think therefore I am" famous dualist
,dualists (early philosophers) -CORRECTANSWER - view that the mind and body are
radically different things
- Plato (the Forms)
what is the mind-body problem -CORRECTANSWER what is the relationship between
the mind and body? what is the relationship between mental properties and physical
properties?
materialists (recent philosophy) -CORRECTANSWER view that mental states are just
physical states
- behaviorism: studying the relation between observable stimuli and observable
behavioral responses
disturbances in the subjective experience of oneself -CORRECTANSWER - cotard's
delusion
- body integrity identity disorder
disruption in the narrative self -CORRECTANSWER - alzheimer's disease
- retrograde and anterograde amnesia
disruption in the agentive self -CORRECTANSWER schizophrenia
dissociation from the self -CORRECTANSWER - post-traumatic stress disorder
, - depersonalization disorder
- dissociative identity disorder
- autism spectrum disorder
disruption in the sense of being grounded in one's body -CORRECTANSWER - out-of-
body experiences
- doppelgänger effect
The Mind-Body Problem -CORRECTANSWER - what is the relationship between the
mind and body/brain? (mental and physical)
Monism -CORRECTANSWER there is only one kind of substance in the universe
- materialism: everything that exists — including mind — is physical
- idealism: everything — including the material world — is mind (George Berkeley)
- transcendental idealism: subtype of idealism that integrates idealism with empiricism,
which emphasizes the importance of sensory experience (Kant)
Dualism -CORRECTANSWER theory that the mental and the physical — or the mind
and body/brain — are, in some sense, radically different kinds of thing
- Descartes (mind-body dualism): our human senses are unreliable, evil genius thought
experiment (must have a mind)
- brain in a vat theory
