PSYCO275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Transfer Rna, Uracil

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO275
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Cartesian dualism: the philosophical position of rene descartes, who argued that the universe is composed of two elements: physical matter and the human mind. Nature-nurture issue: the debate about the relative contributions of nature (genes) and nurture (experience) to the behavioral capacities of individuals. Ethology: the study of the behavior of animals in their natural environments. Instinctive behaviors: behaviors that occur in all like members of a species, even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned. Asomatognosia: deficiency in the awareness of parts of one"s own body that is typically produced by damage to the parietal lobe. Natural selection: the idea that heritable traits that are associated with high rates of survival and reproduction are preferentially passed on to future generations. Fitness: according to darwin, the ability of an organism to survive and contribute its genes to the next generation.