PSYC 271- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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What we will learn: evolution, genes, experience and sensations (and the interactions between them) Measurement, manipulation and link between brain, behaviour and cognition. How the environment turns into signals in brain. Final exam: december 7-17th (all with emphasis on 7, 8, 11) Contrast between 2 things that are seen as completely different (we like easy and simple explanations so dichotomies are appealing to us) An assumed dichotomy between 2 things that are not actually completely different (false sense of security in a poor explanation) Logical fallacy (dangerous because we think were right) The mind-body problem (physiological or psychological/inherited or learnt) Understanding that the brain is the basis of behaviour is important but we also must understand how the brain is able to physically produce behaviour. Rene descartes believed that reflexes were produced physically through a hydraulic-like flo(cid:449) of (cid:862)a(cid:374)i(cid:373)al spirits(cid:863) through (cid:862)(cid:448)al(cid:448)ules(cid:863) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) (cid:374)er(cid:448)ous tissue fila(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts.
