Psychology 2221B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Perfect Creature, Animal Husbandry, Convergent Evolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2221B
• Professor: Derek Quinlan

Document Summary

We think in dichotomies to opposing tings, black and white type of thinking, which shouldn"t be the way of thinking about stuff. Important when we start talking about nature vs nurture to shape how an animal behaves, its always going to be an interaction between the two. This dualistic way of thinking rose in the 17th century in western culture following the dark ages, in response to conflict between science and the roman church. Way of thinking changed during the renaissance and scientists started to study things directly by observing them modern science. Conflict was resolved by ren descartes argued that the universe consists of two elements: physical matter (science, human mind (soul, self, or spirit) (church) Cartesian dualism was viewed the mind and brain as separate entities. Ethology, the study of animal behavior in the wild, focuses on instinctive (nature) behaviors: then you have ethologists show that animals behave this way because they"re hard wired genetics (nature)