PS263 Lecture Notes - Plants And Animals, Platypus, Ethology
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Cartesian dualism: the roman church sanctioned his theory, that the human brain and the mind are separate entities. Whether humans inherit their behavioural capacities or acquire them through learning is referred to as nature-nurture issue. Watson"s theory of behaviorism: ethology is the study of animal behaviour in the wild and instinctive behaviours that occur in all like members of a species even when there seems to have been no opportunity for learned. Evidence against physiological or psychological thinking (assumption that some aspects of human psychological functioning are so complex they could not be a product of the physical brain) Asomatognosia: a deficiency in the awareness of parts of ones own body typically involving the left side and resulting from damage to the r parietal. 1) neurons become active long before they are fully developed, 2) subsequent course of their development depends greatly on their activity much which is triggered by external experience, 3) experience continuously modifies genetic expression.
