[PSYC 211] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (70 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Jonathan Britt

Document Summary

The heart the brain controls our perception, awareness, thoughts and actions. Empedocles mental processes lied in the heart, necessary for life. Aristotle the brain was to control the passions of the heart. Alcmaeon mental processes happened in the brain. Sensus communas di vinci"s belief that all thought derived from a single site. Animals were not very useful because it was said that animals did not have minds but in neuroscience animals are very relied on when it comes to the comparative approach. Materialism rational behavior can be fully explained by the working of the ns without the need to refer to a nonmaterial mind. Mutation an accidental change in the genetic information that us passed onto the organisms offspring. Primates have distinctive features agile hands make tools colour vision see prey. 1 bipedalism allows to walk long distances and have eyes high up language enables communication, transfer of knowledge, establishing complex societies.