PSY352H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 48 pages long!)
Document Summary
Psychology and biology: course will explore the proximate (mechanistic) and ultimate (evolutionary) aspects of behaviour, goal of the course is to make you appreciate that behaviour is just like any other characteristics of your body. It is the result of biological mechanisms and it has developed according to the forces of natural selection, i. e. evolution. How can we study animal behaviour: two fundamentally different approaches in the past, animal psychology, controlled laboratory conditions, nature blind, focuses on generalities, etiology, often based on observations at large, nature aware. Class discussion: genetic code- how the nucleotide sequence is read. Spinal structure- vertebrae are designed for walking on all fours. Unicellular bacteria- simple and successful: gould did not understand that removing a gene/function from any organism is a lot more difficult than adding a gene/function- removal process was found to be more harmful than beneficial.
