PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Mirror Neuron, Operational Definition

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Ultimate causes are explanations at the evolutionary level. Proximate: immediate causes and mechanisms of the behavior. Heritability and inheritability: the ability to be inherited or passed from generation to generation. [genetics and evoltion: introduction to genetics: explain the differences between nature and nurture. Nativism: the philosophical view that we are born with knowledge already present (genes are present at birth and not learned from experience) Empiricism: the philosophical view that we obtain all knowledge through observable facts and experiences (we are born as blank slates and that all behavior results from our individual experiences- environment) Behavior results from both nature (genes) and nurture (environment: describe the heritability of certain traits, including whether they are polygenic. In sexual reproduction, the genetic material (dna) from male (sperm) and female (egg) combines. Human has 23 pairs of chromosomes (22 are called autosomes and 23rd pair is made up of. Males have an xy pair (sperm); females have an xx pair (egg)