PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Traumatic Brain Injury, Central Nervous System, Gregor Mendel
17 Apr 2016
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1. 2 perspectives on brain and behavior: the view that behavior is the product of an intangible entity called the mind (psyche) is mentalism. The notion that the immaterial mind acts through the material brain to produce language and rational behavior is dualism. Mendel used the method of experimentation (using pea plants). Guide: humans possess the largest and most complex brains relative to body size. 1. 4 evolution of the human brain and behavior: modern humans share a common ancestor with the chimpanzee, our closest living relative, modern humans evolved from a hominid lineage that featured. Evidence suggests that each new hominid species appeared after climate changes devastated old environments and produced new ones. Eventually, modern humans evolved adaptability suicient to allow us to populate almost every climatic region on earth. In comparing individual members within a species, brain size, and intelligence are not particulary related, rather, the complexity of diferent brain regions is related to behavioral abilities.
