PSY 454- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
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Body and brain direct all other behavior via mechanical and physical principles. Behavior influenced by both nonmaterial mind and material body. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body. Language test use language to describe and reason about things not physically present. Action test requires behavior based on reasoning, not just an automatic response to a particular situation. Nonhuman animals and machines would be unable to pass the test because they lacked a mind. Behavior explained as fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:374)er(cid:448)ous syste(cid:373). Evolutionary theories of alfred wallace and charles darwin. Gregor mendel discovered one principle underlying phenotypic variation and how traits pass from parents to their offspring. Mendel deduced that heritable factors (genes) govern various physical traits displayed by the species. Epigenetics differences in gene expression arising from environment and experience. If can explain physiologically consciousness, pain, and attention: mental explanation eliminated.
