PSYCH 360 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Neuron, Amplitude Modulation, Nervous System
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Includes psychologists, biologists, chemists, medical doctors and more. It"s a very complex organ: the brain controls everything in your body, it is literally who you are, the brain is what makes us human. Inner brain: older parts of brain; responsible for physiological regulation (heart rate) What do we gain: can help other animals in education professionals. 12:20 pm: evolution: the process in which one species changes over time, darwin suggested the mechanism of evolution. Linnaeus" system expanded: family tree, species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, closer organisms are more closely related, closer common ancestor (more recent) more closely related/ similar. Human vs. rat: olfactory: giant in rats, midbrain: larger in rats, cortex: larger in humans. Encephalization factor: body weight/ (body weight) ^. 69: how much cortex you have, mathematical indication of how brainy a species is; and by brainy they mean how much cortex they have. Increased survival and ability for group interaction in humans (social animals)
