PSYC 2240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sequence, Brainstem, Hemoglobin
17 Feb 2013
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Animals with these mechanisms survived to reproduce better than animals with other mechanisms. Biological explanations of behaviour: physiological explanation relates behaviour to the activity of the brain and other, ex. Birds who drink with their heads down do so because of certain nerve organs. Goose bumps are useless to humans because our shoulder and arms hairs are so short, but in other animals it makes a difference as it makes them seem larger. See page 5 for examples of all explanations. Various forms of monism are possible: materialism everything that exists is material or physical. Mental events don"t exist at all: mentalism only the mind really exists and that the physical world could not exist unless some mind were aware of it. Identity position mental processes and certain kinds of brain processes are the same thing, described in different terms. 2: some proteins form part of the structure of the body, others serve as enzymes, biological catalysts.
