PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psychophysics, Trichromacy, Olfaction
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Midterm tomorrow 75 questions, 15 per chapter can come early. What is psychology where did it come from. Psychology is a hub science- have as many citations in papers as the other 6 hub sciences (chem etc. ) Names are not in isolation, there is historical material: conflicts: getstalt, structuralists, behaviorists cognitive, funcionalists behaviorists etc. Ethical questions: end of chapter 2 for ethical standards. Evolution blonde slide, migration, genetic drift, new situations. Behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology: table about what happens when two organisms meet each other. Question about amazonian tribes, difference between them. Evolution of the human nervous system: rapid growth of brain, social life. If something happens to this kind of the brain, this kind of behavior happens . Lateralization question: stuff is happening differently on one side of the brain than the other: a couple questions on this.
