PSYC 2330 Study Guide - Conditioned Place Preference, Aplysia Gill And Siphon Withdrawal Reflex, Fixed Action Pattern

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Behaviour is triggered by stimuli that have motivational value through our central motivational state (motivational value is relative) and from past experiences (have memory for stimuli because we have experienced it already and have learned from the outcome. Rene descartes was a dualist that said that both the mind and the physical world could produce behaviour. He said there were two kinds of behaviours. Involuntary is the only one that is shared with animals because they have no mind. The senses bring in external world, relays to brain, which initiates muscle movements. Voluntary movements were exclusively human because again, animals had no free will. Sensory organs take in external environment, goes to brain and then to pineal gland which links physical brain to non-physical mind (because in center of brain). Mind initiates behaviour, which is then sent to pineal gland, brain and muscles.