Astronomy 2021A/B Midterm: first midterm cheatsheet(ch2+6)
12 May 2017
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1)the general intellectual climate of a culture is referred to as its zeitgeist. 2)a major purpose of chapter 2 of biopsychology is to teach you not to think about the biology of behavior in terms of traditional dichotomies. 3)the idea that the human brain and human mind are separate entities was formalized in the 1600s by descartes. 4)descartes"s philosophy was called dualism. 5)nature is to nurture as genetics is to experience. 6)european ethologists focused on the study of instinctive behaviors. 7)asomatognosia is a e) deficiency in the awareness of parts of one"s own body. 8)asomatognosia typically results from damage to the right parietal lobe+affects the left side of the body. 9)depicted here is the cortex of the right parietal lobe. 10)one way to study self-awareness in nonhuman animals is to confront them with a mirror. 11)according to the text, the phrase, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. sums up the history of nature-or-nurture thinking.
