LIFESCI 2D03 Lecture Notes - Diet Food, Birth Weight, Four Loko
1 Feb 2013
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Instincts responsive to their environment, can react. Animals (kingdom animalia) one of the 3 kingdoms of multicellular organisms. Some think humans should be placed in separate category. But within biological context, humans should be placed in kingdom. Assessing each other: work ethic, appearance, genes, what they can contribute to offspring. Don t always know how people will behave or think. Mothers talk to their younger children differently from their older children: false. Few students will confess to ruining a computer program if they didn t do it: false. Most individuals will notice if a person they are talking to is replaced by another person: false. When we think about our own behaviour, we fail to recognize how narrow our attention is. We only see 1-2 degrees in clear focus. Two mechanisms that change behaviour over time: natural selection, learning & social learning. Describe mechanisms that control and generate behaviour in most animals.
