PSYC314 Lecture 1: Class Notes

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC314
• Professor: Roth Eric

Document Summary

1) primary function of the brain- control movement. 2) galvani"s experience involving a frog leg proved that- muscles are activated by nerve. 3) key benefits of genetic diversity is- allowing species to adapt. 4) regarding the relation to brain and body size- human brains are larger than other. 5) studies with human subjects must include species when expressed relative to total body weight. Is to employ deduction to explain a phenomenon in terms of more basic elements. Recognize that a behavior can occur for various reasons (mice nest building, Goal research: temperature change or pregnancy due to hormones) Reduction- bigger ideas reducing to simplest parts. Monism- mind is made of matter, produced by workings of the nervous system. Dualism- two part basis, the mind may be a separate . We all can think, but is the mind a component of the body or is it separate body is physical, but the mind is not.