PSYC 271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: The Sequence, Deoxyribose, Uracil
9 May 2013
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Evolution, genetics, and experience- thinking about the biology of behaviour. Zeitgeist- the general intellectual climate of our culture. John b. watson believed that nurture made had the biggest effect- father of behaviourism. Nature-nurture issue is a very dichotomic way of thinking. Zeitgeist- general intellectual climate of our culture. Ethology- the study of animal behaviour in the wild. Instinctive behaviours- behaviours that occur in all like members of a species even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned. Self-awareness is widely regarded as one of the hallmarks of the human mind. Asomatognosia- a deficiency in the awareness of parts of one"s own body: usually results from damage to the right parietal lobe; involves the left side of the body. Model of biology of behaviour premise is that all behaviour is the product of interactions among three factors: 1. The organisms genetic endowment, which is the product of its evolution: 2.
