PSB 3002 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Betting In Poker, Animal Testing, Monism

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSB 3002
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Psb 3002, spring 2010 (dear class: i"m attempting to be as comprehensive as possible. General principles of scientific experiments and their interpretation based on many observations of similar phenomena: generalization a type of scientific explanation. Problems with dualist theories; also easy vs. hard problems of consciousness. Emergent properties as they may relate to neuroscience. Cortical vs. subcortical contributions to intelligence (generally: sub-cortical and cortical areas of the brain have to work together rather than separately. Ethical issues and animal research: any time we use another species of animals for our own purposes, we should be sure that what we are doing is both humane and worthwhile, testing often times benefits humans (diseases, etc. ) More blood flow allows for hominids to have large brains. Discussion of different hominids, including the boskops (from class: enlargement of hominid brain size. Due to neoteny (slowing of maturation) as well as prolonged mitosis (allows for more brain cells)