PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cellular Differentiation, Siamese Fighting Fish, Maggot Brain
6 Apr 2013
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Most people now understand that human behaviour has a physiological basis, but many still cling to the dualistic assumption that there is a category of human activity that somehow transcends the human brain. Ethology the study of animal behaviour in the wild. Asomatognosia a deficiency in the awareness of parts of one"s own body. Usually involves the left side of the body and usually results from damage to the right parietal lobe. Face recognition neurons, mirror neurons are the basis of imitation. Your mirror neurons fire when you are watching someone do something, when you are imitating someone else and when someone else is imitating you. Evidence includes fossils, similarities and yet difference found in different species, and the results of human processes of artificial selection (cats, dogs, etc. ) Before the industrial revolution, peppered moths were mostly in the white form, after the industrial revolution they were mostly found in the black form.
