PSYC 100 Lecture : Lecture 1.doc

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel Levitin

Document Summary

Psychological science for most of recorded history, 2000 to 5000 years, humans have tried to understand the nature of the word and nature of human behavior. This developed questions and puzzles but no scientific approach. During the last 200 years, human curiosity explored the human mental world and the physical world. Despite all the discoveries in science, still exists the mystery of the human though and intelligence, and the nature of human"s behavior. Biological adaptation: e. g. being resistant to certain bacteria. Theory of evolution: through reproduction genes are transmitted from one generation to the next, once in a while, there are transcription errors when passing genes from one generation to the next. Randomly, these errors may cause an advantage or a disadvantage. Sometimes, these might not have major consequences, for example freckles. The structure of the brain and its anatomy are dictated by our genome.