PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Adrenal Medulla, Intensive Animal Farming, World War I
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Wed. oct 24 review session in kenny building. No clear divide between physical pathology and psychopathology. Combination of genes operating within an environment. Pathology tends to decrease tness (less able to reproduce or survive long enough to reproduce) Medicine and social sciences focus on proximate explanations of disease. But there"s also ultimate explanations of psychopathology. Evolutionary biology is not taught in medical school. Takes too much time away from other subjects. Teleology: weakness in explaining the past from the future. (we shouldn"t talk about the function of the sun in terms of our lives or the earth, because we didn"t exist when the sun was formed) Evolution: explaining the future from the past (not an error). Medicine tends to focus on neither of this. Major cause of death was bacterial and viral infection. Viruses is just a string of genetic codes (can manipulate our genetic code) Bacteria is another living organism (live outside ourselves)
