PSY352H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
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Proximate question (phenogenetic causation: concerns the biological and physiological mechanisms of behavior, that is: (cid:862)how do thi(cid:374)gs work? (cid:863) Ultimate question (phylogenetic causation: concerns the evolution and adaptive aspect of behavior, that is: (cid:862)how di it (cid:272)o(cid:373)e a(cid:271)out? (cid:863) There are many species of animals with many different behaviors (comparative approaches) Ethical considerations: there are many procedures available for animals but not for humans, in order to study behavior. Medical research (model organisms and laboratory animals as tools for discovery: transgenic (gene from a different source is inserted into an animal) mouse to study alzheimers- study if a drug can improve functioning of transgenic mice. Two fundamentally different approaches in the past: animal psychology, controlled lab conditions, nature blind, focuses on generalities, ethology (european approach, often based on observations at large, nature aware, stresses species specific characteristics. One of the first naturalists to observe and record animal behavior was charles darwin.
