PSYC 2410 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Autoreceptor, Axon Terminal, Endoplasmic Reticulum

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Zeitgeist: general intellectual climate of our culture which ingrains in our minds. Physiological or psychological: cartesian dualism: the human mind and brain are separate entities. A category of human activity that somehow transcends the brain: problems: Assumption that some functioning is so complex it could not be a product of the physical brain. Asomoatognosia deficiency in the awareness of parts of one"s own body, usually from right parietal lobe damage. All human experience, even very complex ones, can be produced by manipulation of the brain. Some nonhuman species (primates) have abilities that were assumed to once be purely psychological/human. Even non humans (no mind) are capable of psychological. Nature or nurture (learned/inherited) complexity (self awareness: ethology: the study of animal behaviour in the wild. Instinctive behaviours: behaviours that occur in all like species. Emphasized the role of nature, not just nurture: progression of debate: 1st) factors other than genetics/learning proved to influence behaviour (broadened concept of nurture- included experience. )

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