PSYC 2P45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neuroticism, Homeostasis, Behavioral Neuroscience
15 Sep 2016
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The nativists are closer to the truth: we are born with pre existing behavior systems that set limits on how learning occurs and how it impacts us. Not just blank slate, have some limits. The same thing for language: something in their brains have a innate instinct that children learns grammar. So not everything is learned from the environment. Elicited behaviour: responding to stimuli, ie. Reflexive behaviour: a form of elicited behavior, based on reflexes, decartes was the first to notice reflexes, more sophisticated way of knowing how they work, different types of neurons; sensory and motor neurons. Sensory (afferent) ; when we touch something from the senses, they travel into our spinal cord. Motor (efferent); back our from the spinal cord and tells my hand to move: can be positive reflex. Ethologists- study the evolution of behavior: interested in studying behavior patterns and how it evolves in different species.
