PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

The science of behaviour: psychologists use the term cause to mean that a phenomenon of interest occurs if and only if the cause is present. Always present if the cause if present, and is always absent otherwise. Ex- your dog runs to his bowl when he hears the dogfood bag shake: how questions refers to the mechanism that causes something to occur. Ex- we hear because sound tells our eardrums to vibrate: why questions are answered from a functional or evolutionary point of view.