PSY 2106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mutation, Epigenetics, Natural Selection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2106
• Professor: Andree- Anne Ledoux

Document Summary

Inherited behaviours: born with that skill, skill is natural (the animal already. Learned behaviours: animals will have to watch a skill being performed to. Behaviour consists of patterns in time (movements, vocalizations, changes in. Behaviours in animals vary enormously; they have behaviours that are inherited. What is behaviour? appearance); thinking is a pattern of time and some that will be learned as they develop in life. knows it because it is crucial for survival) develop the techniques to actually perform that skill (ex. Philosophical position that holds that behaviour can be explained as a function of the brain and the rest of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind. Natural selection: darwin"s theory for explaining how new species evolve and how existing species change over time. Differential success in the reproduction of different characteristic (phenotype) results from the interaction of organisms with their environment. Phenotype: individual characteristics that can be seen or measured.