PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Observer-Expectancy Effect, Electroencephalography, Group Dynamics
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Psychologist seek to understand how people perceive, think, and act. Behavior-a wide variety of actions, from the subtle to the complex, that occur in all organisms. Bipolar disorder-causes a person to have dramatic mood swings, from feeling extremely sad to feeling euphoric. Da vinci-rene descartes(dualism)-mind and body are separate yet intertwined radical. The accumulating evidence indicates that the mind is adaptive in biological and cultural terms. Adaptations-physical characteristics, skills, and abilities-that increased their chances of survival and reproduction and ensured that their genes were passed along to future generations. Charles darwin-on the origin of species-theory of evolution-natural selection: the process by which organisms" random mutations that are adaptive are passed along and random mutations that hinder survival are not. Survival of the fittest-those better adapted to their environments will leave more offspring, those offspring will produce more offspring. Globalization-the flow of people, commodities, and financial instruments among all regions of the world.
