PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adaptive Behavior, Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Muscular System
Document Summary
Recognizable minds occur only in complex living organisms: requires in physilogical complexity, requires life process. Minds have something to do with our brains: brain a physiological category, requires hyper-complex physical/material substrate. Minds are inferred from an organism"s behavior: mind is a theoretical construct, responsive behaviors- adaptive behavior, teleological behavior (goal orientated)- adaptive behavior. Key ideas: f, chemistry: self-reproducing complexes, energy adaptation, biology: agency and behavior adaptation, psychology: nervous system, stimulus response, anthropology: super adaptation. Responsiveness: we have to be able to response before an event in the environment happens, only in living being are the characters" to be able response quickly to events. Reponses system: detector that monitor the environment-external. Distance receptors tell us things that are far from us: eyes, ears, noes, they are in our head. Detectors part of the nervous system: external, alimentary, internal temperature- tells us if we are sick. Muscle spindles- give us information about the rate at which the muscle is expanding.
