Psychology 3139A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Mate Choice, Emergence, Sex Selection

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3139A/B
• Professor: Karen Hussey

Document Summary

*exploration of what makes us different from even our closest evolutionary cousins and ancestors in terms of brain structure, size, resource consumption cost/dependence. Mind is an emergent property from something biological that happens because of pressure from the environment and natural selection. Pheromones: the greater produced, the more likely it will be successful in reproducing. Vomeronasal organ: responsible for detecting and responding to pheromones. Macrosmatic: animals that rely on these chemical signals to cue direction, danger and sexual reproductive activity, Microsmatic: we are only able to identify words that have strong negative and positive for taste/smell, it"s not that important to us. Humans are not overt in their use/detection of pheromones; they are not able to do this consciously. *using a behaviour (language) as a cue to the underlying processes of the brain. The only reason you use language is to influence someone.