PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 66: Phototaxis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: James Check

Document Summary

A part of the midbrain that contributes to cortical arousal. Awakens sleeping individuals and increases alertness in those already awake. What all this means is that some types of beha viors may be genetically determined, such as a (cid:373)oth"s attractio(cid:374) to light (called positive photo taxis), while other behaviors may be the result of experience, such as remembering. Prepared behaviors are either instinctive or very easily and quickly preparedness/prepared learned. Organisms possessing genes behaviors that allowed them to behave in this way were favored in the struggle to survive. Dewan, 1970) have proposed that rem sleep serves as a progranuning device. programming device. New material learned during waking is seen as being incorporated into and changing the existing organization of the brain during rem sleep. Prospective studies, in which individuals supply information about recent life changes and are questioned. Prospective studies later (usually six months to a year) about changes in health, have also been conducted.