PSY 814 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Homo Habilis, Limbic System, Paraphilic Infantilism
8 Dec 2013
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Descartes: human mind is special and separate from body and brain. Dualists: also rely on observation that human behaviour is more complex than other. Dualists believe human neuroanatomy and cognitive processes differ fundamentally from animals those of other animals. 2nd goal of comparative research is to design animal models of human neurological disorders researchers want to produce disorder in animals, manipulate multiple variables to understand its cause and ultimately formulate a treatment ex. Parkinson"s disease associated with aging in humans, whose symptoms are: rigidity that impedes voluntary movement, balance problems and tremors of head, hands and limbs cause of disease is unknown and there is no cure. 3 goals in finding treatments: prevent disease, slow its progression once it has developed and treat symptoms as disease progresses. Parkinson models developed in rats, mouse and monkeys. 3 ways: experiments mammals permit inferences about how environment in which species lived shaped its evolution, brain and behaviour.
