PSY352H5 Lecture Notes - Comparative Psychology, Reductionism, Genetic Code
Document Summary
Behaviour is something that you can see in a particular space and time. Measuring behavior allows you to analyze and ask questions about the functioning of the brain working type theory on what is going on in the brain. Behaviour is a experimental tool, where you can narrow focus down and have. Psychology deals with numerous aspects of animal and human behaviour. Psychology traditionally belonged to social sciences and sometimes treated the brain as a. Psychology is subdiscipline of biology as brain is reason for behavior: nowadays the discipline is regarded as part of natural sciences and psychology uses numerous concepts and methods of biology. Proximate question (phenogenetic causation): concerns the biological & physiological mechanisms of behaviour, that is: how do things work? , ultimate question (phylogenetic causation, concerns the evolution and adaptive aspect of behaviour, that is: how did it come about? .
